From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [jidanni@deadspam.com: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye] Date: 25 Jun 2002 07:59:00 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87znxk8erv.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> References: <200206201435.g5KEZLF18772@aztec.santafe.edu> <5xu1nxh6o7.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200206221720.g5MHKLj16237@rum.cs.yale.edu> <877kkrw1pz.fsf@emacswiki.org> <200206231812.g5NICiS24452@aztec.santafe.edu> <87r8ixazu9.fsf@emacswiki.org> <200206241940.g5OJe8v26290@aztec.santafe.edu> <87u1nse5qr.fsf@emacswiki.org> <87bsa09x5r.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <87d6uge3q5.fsf@emacswiki.org> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1024959612 7207 127.0.0.1 (24 Jun 2002 23:00:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 23:00:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17Mcod-0001s2-00 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 01:00:11 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17Mcpz-0007mK-00 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 01:01:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17Mcoj-0003mj-00; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 19:00:17 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp01.fields.gol.com ([203.216.5.131]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17McnY-0003i0-00; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 18:59:04 -0400 Original-Received: from tc-2-179.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.25.179] helo=tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp) by smtp01.fields.gol.com with esmtp (Magnetic Fields) id 17McnW-0004pY-00; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 07:59:02 +0900 Original-Received: by tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5DAFF30A4; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 07:59:00 +0900 (JST) Original-To: Alex Schroeder System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <87d6uge3q5.fsf@emacswiki.org> Original-Lines: 15 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:5176 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:5176 Alex Schroeder writes: > So perhaps we need a new variable that controls this? "buffers are > documents" or something like that. :) I vote this be default t, to > protect newbies. That would be reasonable, as long as it's easy to turn off. [But it might result in a lot of complaints/spurious bug reports, depending on how many people use scratch buffers a lot like I do; there's a _big_ community of long-time emacs users that can get riled up by even seemingly innocuous changes] -Miles -- `Life is a boundless sea of bitterness'