From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Scratch buffer annoyance Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:54:55 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87643oed00.fsf@jurta.org> 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> <85ps1zdpw3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186689497 15055 80.91.229.12 (9 Aug 2007 19:58:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 19:58:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 09 21:58:13 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 1IJE97-0001yY-9H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:58:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IJE96-00088x-OR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:58:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IJE91-00085r-KX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:58:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IJE8z-00083e-2I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:58:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IJE8y-00083Z-Sn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:58:04 -0400 Original-Received: from relay01.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.200]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IJE8p-0006Db-OC; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:57:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay01.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IJE8Q-0009qz-Ge; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:57:35 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed\, 08 Aug 2007 20\:07\:34 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 5389b9e13478507b5d7b23e4ed053241 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1368 [August 9 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 10 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-Detected-Kernel: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) 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:76269 Archived-At: > 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 *. > > You might be right, but the change seems too radical to me. > I would rather introduce a new buffer-auto-mode-alist > just to avoid the incompatible change. Whose definition could be just (defvar buffer-auto-mode-alist (append '(("\\`\*scratch\*\\'" . lisp-interaction-mode)) auto-mode-alist)) -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/