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: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:42:23 -0400 Message-ID: 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> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186098005 9791 80.91.229.12 (2 Aug 2007 23:40:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 23:40:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 03 01:40:03 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 1IGkGw-00021s-12 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:40:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IGkGv-0005YY-IA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:40:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IGkGs-0005YJ-Uo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:39:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IGkGr-0005Y7-8N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:39:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IGkGr-0005Y4-1d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:39:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IGkGq-00046h-PR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:39:56 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IGkJD-0002dn-LO; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:42:23 -0400 In-reply-to: <87odhqethv.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (message from Miles Bader on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:15:56 +0900) 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:75966 Archived-At: I recommend defining the value this way: A string is a file name to visit. A symbol that's a command is an initial major mode for *scratch*. nil means keep the splash screen. It does what we want and it is clear.