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: A wish, a plea Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:47:03 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87hcox1tbh.fsf@jurta.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182804999 29309 80.91.229.12 (25 Jun 2007 20:56:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:56:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 25 22:56:38 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 1I2vbr-0006nO-7A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:56:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I2vbq-0002Ie-Lw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:56:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I2vbg-0002Ek-Iv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:56:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I2vbe-0002Db-Rl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:56:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I2vbe-0002DW-Km for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:56:18 -0400 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I2vba-0006wa-N9; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:56:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I2vbO-0001vn-Pt; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:56:11 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Fri\, 22 Jun 2007 10\:12\:14 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 367251710ae6d8069d2a2bb66b314d03 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 1175 [June 25 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 0 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:73859 Archived-At: > (defcustom visit-on-startup "~/" > "File or directory to visit when Emacs is started." > :type '(choice (const :tag "Splash screen only" nil) > (file :tag "Visit file or directory" :value "~/")) > :group 'emacs) > > I'd vote for the default value being `~/', but deciding on the default value > is a different issue than deciding to let users customize the startup > behavior. You forgot the option for displaying *scratch* on startup. Perhaps nil should do that, and I think it should be the default value. FWIW, I have as the last line of .emacs: (dired "~") that allows me immediately after startup navigate to the necessary directory and to open/create files in it. And *scratch* still exists, coming up after pressing `q' in the initial dired buffer. So I welcome a new option to customize this. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/