From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Scratch buffer annoyance Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:36:29 -0400 Message-ID: <871wf7m1gy.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <877ipev1iv.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87lkdhqp94.fsf@red-bean.com> <20070716203244.85A0A30116@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184690381 12785 80.91.229.12 (17 Jul 2007 16:39:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:39:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, ams@gnu.org, sdl.web@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 17 18:39:39 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 1IAq5L-0003lS-4q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:39:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IAq5K-00088Y-Ns for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:39:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IAq5H-00085L-CO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:39:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IAq5F-00081K-Q3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:39:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IAq5F-000810-Ks for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:39:33 -0400 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IAq5A-0006bH-Bm; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:39:28 -0400 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 874CD4E2C5; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:36:29 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue\, 17 Jul 2007 11\:05\:37 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) 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:75000 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Wouldn't it be smarter to make the initial splash screen the current > buffer when Emacs starts instead? It would make sense for that to be > read-only, and when one does C-x C-q, it could for example clear it > and toggle the read-only status of the buffer (with a brief note in > the initial splash screen that one can do C-x C-q to convert it into a > "scratch" buffer). > > It is an interesting idea. What do others think? What's wrong with my original suggestion? (i) offer an option to adopt the Emacs 22 behavior for the *scratch* buffer, i.e. with buffer-offer-save and auto-save disabled, and (ii) delete the auto-save file if the user answers "no" when asked if *scratch* should be saved.