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: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 16:54:23 -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> <87zm18v7ug.fsf@jurta.org> <85abt7kck1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85vebucvtp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186347212 12224 80.91.229.12 (5 Aug 2007 20:53:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 20:53:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 05 22:53:31 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 1IHn6L-0004ho-VJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 22:53:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IHn6J-0000Fb-5G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 16:53:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IHn59-0008G6-6z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 16:52:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IHn57-0008Ea-7B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 16:52:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IHn56-0008EO-Vm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 16:52:09 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IHn4q-0003KM-4g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 16:51:52 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IHn7H-0001NT-Nl; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 16:54:23 -0400 In-reply-to: <85vebucvtp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 08:57:38 +0200) 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:76064 Archived-At: > As I understand it, part of the idea of this change is that > there won't BE a *scratch* buffer if you don't request it > in `initial-buffer-contents'. Certainly not at startup. But I use a Lisp mode *scratch* buffer regularly in the normal work. It is totally straightforward to set that up in .emacs, so I don't think we need to set it up in this option.