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: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:22:27 -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> <87hcndc3zc.fsf@jurta.org> <86fy2wbujj.fsf@lola.quinscape.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 1186449712 6973 80.91.229.12 (7 Aug 2007 01:21:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 01:21:52 +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 Tue Aug 07 03:21:49 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 1IIDlc-0005pM-GI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 03:21:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IIDla-0001rF-TH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:21:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IIDji-0000iU-7n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:19:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IIDjc-0000gZ-MP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:19:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IIDjc-0000gU-CW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:19:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IIDja-0006d3-Ij for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:19:43 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IIDmF-0005lL-0J; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:22:27 -0400 In-reply-to: <86fy2wbujj.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:35:12 +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:76122 Archived-At: In fact, people thought this so desirable that we have * Changes in Emacs 21.2 [...] ** When the *scratch* buffer is recreated, its mode is set from initial-major-mode, which normally is lisp-interaction-mode, instead of using default-major-mode. I would like to retain the ability to do this, though I agree that "initial-major-mode" is a completely misleading name for it under the new startup design and should become a deprecated alias (do we have that?) for something more fitting. We could have something like auto-mode-alist for buffer names.