From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Scratch buffer annoyance Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:05:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: <877ipev1iv.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87lkdhqp94.fsf@red-bean.com> <20070716203244.85A0A30116@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184684765 23062 80.91.229.12 (17 Jul 2007 15:06:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:06:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, sdl.web@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: ams@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 17 17:05:59 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 1IAobw-0000mU-RE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:05:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IAobw-00076k-CJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:05:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IAobP-0006kR-6n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:04:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IAobO-0006jx-PK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:04:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IAobO-0006je-Ce for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:04:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IAobN-0004MY-VQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:04:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IAocL-0007Fy-9k; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:05:37 -0400 In-reply-to: <20070716203244.85A0A30116@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE> (ams@gnu.org) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:74986 Archived-At: Wouldn't it be smarter to make the initial splash screen the current buffer when Emacs starts instead? It would make sense for that to be read-only, and when one does C-x C-q, it could for example clear it and toggle the read-only status of the buffer (with a brief note in the initial splash screen that one can do C-x C-q to convert it into a "scratch" buffer). It is an interesting idea. What do others think?