From: Jonathan Rockway <jon@jrock.us>
To: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: On the new startup and scratch buffer
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:56:23 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zlu4oi48.fsf@bar.jrock.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47B319AD.3030804@alice.it> (Angelo Graziosi's message of "Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:24:13 +0100")
* On Wed, Feb 13 2008, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> Today, after a bootstrap of fresh CVS, I observe that the startup
> buffer is not loaded any more and the scratch buffer is *completely*
> empty.
>
>
> Usually the scratch buffer contains (in red) this sentence:
>
> ============================================================
> ;; This buffer is for notes you don't want to save, and for Lisp evaluation.
> ;; If you want to create a file, visit that file with C-x C-f,
> ;; then enter the text in that file's own buffer.
> ============================================================
>
> Is this the correct behaviour?
>
> The behaviour of the startup screen is confirmed by this
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> lisp/ChangeLog
> [...]
> * desktop.el (after-init-hook): Set inhibit-startup-screen to
> t after reading the desktop.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
According to the docstring on `initial-scratch-message':
"Initial message displayed in *scratch* buffer at startup.
If this is nil, no message will be displayed.
If `inhibit-startup-screen' is non-nil, then no message is displayed,
regardless of the value of this variable."
So it looks like this is expected, although annoying. This just looks
like a side effect of having this block:
(and initial-scratch-message
(get-buffer "*scratch*")
(with-current-buffer "*scratch*"
(when (zerop (buffer-size))
(insert initial-scratch-message)
(set-buffer-modified-p nil))))
On the "else" side of the (if (or ... inhibit-startup-screen ...) ...)
statement.
If people are interested in a change to this behavior (always add text
to *scratch* if initial-scratch-message isn't nil), I'll supply a patch.
Regards,
Jonathan Rockway
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-13 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-13 16:24 On the new startup and scratch buffer Angelo Graziosi
2008-02-13 17:56 ` Jonathan Rockway [this message]
2008-02-13 18:08 ` Angelo Graziosi
2008-02-13 22:45 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-14 1:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-14 4:18 ` [patch] " Jonathan Rockway
2008-02-21 16:27 ` Sascha Wilde
2008-02-21 17:04 ` Jonathan Rockway
2008-02-21 23:11 ` Angelo Graziosi
2008-02-28 23:00 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-28 23:40 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-29 10:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-29 21:31 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-01 9:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-29 10:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-29 23:00 ` Chong Yidong
2008-03-02 2:54 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-02 9:48 ` Angelo Graziosi
2008-03-02 14:41 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-02 15:20 ` Chong Yidong
2008-03-02 16:20 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-03 14:01 ` Johan Bockgård
2008-03-03 21:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-04 0:34 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-12 22:40 ` Juri Linkov
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