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: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:30:30 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87mywvyols.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> <87643pbqjq.fsf@jurta.org> <85643ppor9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87sl6sbjaw.fsf@jurta.org> <87fy2oms2y.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 1187051640 11723 80.91.229.12 (14 Aug 2007 00:34:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:34:00 +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 Tue Aug 14 02:33:58 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 1IKkM7-000160-TL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:33:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IKkM7-0001vI-6r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:33:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IKkM4-0001us-B1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:33:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IKkM2-0001s8-NR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:33:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IKkM2-0001rl-HA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:33:50 -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 1IKkM0-0007GG-Pw; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:33:49 -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 1IKjzo-000A09-AQ; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:11:00 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon\, 13 Aug 2007 01\:00\:40 -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 1386 [August 13 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:76490 Archived-At: > Those names are not good because the value is not a buffer. > `startup-buffer-choice' is better, because at least it doesn't > imply the value is a buffer. > > However, I can also suggest `startup-buffer-initialization'. > > `startup-buffer-style', recently suggested, is also better than > just `startup-buffer'. The suffix `-style' defines variations of basically the same contents (cf. custom-buffer-style with values `brackets' and `links'). >>From all proposed names I think the least bad is `startup-buffer-choice' or `initial-buffer-choice'. Even though the suffix `-choice' is unnecessary, at least it is true and exactly represents the fact that this user option has the customization type `choice'. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/