Re: Scratch buffer annoyance

[Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>]

> Maybe we should have
> initial-visitor just evaluated.  Then one can set it to (find-file
> "~/") or (display-splash-screen) or (switch-to-buffer "*scratch*").

Yes, then it would be easier to customize and precisely distinguish
different meanings of string values:

(defcustom startup-function nil
  "Function to call after starting Emacs."
  :type '(choice
          (const :tag "Splash screen" nil)
          (list :tag "Directory"
		(const :value dired)
		(directory :tag "Directory name" :value "~/"))
          (list :tag "File"
		(const :value find-file)
		(file :tag "File name" :value "~/new.txt"))
          (list :tag "Buffer"
		(const :value switch-to-buffer)
		(string :tag "Buffer name" :value "*scratch*")))
  :version "23.1"
  :group 'initialization)

And to eval one of the predefined non-nil funcalls:

(dired "~/")
(find-file "~/new.txt")
(switch-to-buffer "*scratch*")

-- 
Juri Linkov
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