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, 16 Aug 2007 23:12:16 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87lkcb2q77.fsf@jurta.org> References: <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> <87643pbqjq.fsf@jurta.org> <85643ppor9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87sl6sbjaw.fsf@jurta.org> <87fy2oms2y.fsf@jurta.org> <85sl6o3rj1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <873aykml2v.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187295448 15391 80.91.229.12 (16 Aug 2007 20:17:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:17:28 +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 16 22:17:17 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 1ILlmO-0002S6-0S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:17:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ILlmN-0006Dc-Fe for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:17:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ILllm-0005n0-RQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:16:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ILllj-0005i6-D9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:16:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ILllj-0005ht-6C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:16:35 -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 1ILlle-000364-QH; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:16:31 -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 1ILllV-000G7s-06; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:16:29 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed\, 15 Aug 2007 22\:42\:03 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 7b6940144bc5d56bdacd12344196c2df 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 1389 [August 15 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:76640 Archived-At: > Done. I added the variable `initial-buffer-choice' because other names > are less appropriate. If someone wants to change the prefix `initial-', > please also change prefixes of related variables `initial-major-mode' and > `initial-scratch-message'. > > Thanks for installing it, but would you please describe this in > etc/NEWS, then ack? > > Every feature change should be describe in etc/NEWS > when it is installed. I described `initial-buffer-choice' in NEWS a hour after installing the patch in startup.el, when I realized that I forgot to describe it in NEWS. So perhaps you missed it in this short period of time. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/