From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Scratch buffer annoyance Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:57:16 +0200 Message-ID: <85ps1zdpw3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <85ejinrqgk.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <35917.128.165.123.18.1185998078.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <85vebzq7vd.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87odhqethv.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87zm18v7ug.fsf@jurta.org> <85abt7kck1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87hcndc3zc.fsf@jurta.org> <86fy2wbujj.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <86sl6van2y.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186520279 31737 80.91.229.12 (7 Aug 2007 20:57:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 20:57:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 07 22:57:58 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IIW7o-0007H2-DX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:57:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IIW7k-0005Kx-S3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:57:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IIW7g-0005KB-AD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:57:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IIW7a-0005J1-RL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:57:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IIW7a-0005Iy-LY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:57:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-12.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.52]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IIW7N-00012a-MP; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:57:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.13]) by mail-in-12.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 370F74C49F; Tue, 7 Aug 2007 22:57:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (mail-in-03.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.43]) by mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22C5213ED7F; Tue, 7 Aug 2007 22:57:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-013-125.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.13.125]) by mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3D4430A9CA; Tue, 7 Aug 2007 22:57:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 3E4421C3C79D; Tue, 7 Aug 2007 22:57:16 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue\, 07 Aug 2007 16\:11\:47 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.1/3886/Tue Aug 7 20:02:14 2007 on mail-in-03.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:76162 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > That was my first thought, too, and I looked for something like that > in vain. > > auto-mode-buffer-alist or something. > > buffer-auto-mode-alist seems clearer. > Would you like to implement it? On second thought, I think that it can be wrapped into auto-mode-alist. If someone does C-x b unnamed.c RET, chances are that he won't find it strange to see the buffer in C mode rather than fundamental mode. And the only buffers that are not file-related tend to start with *. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum