From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: A wish, a plea Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:04:58 -0700 Message-ID: References: <467AF6CC.2000300@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182468208 25349 80.91.229.12 (21 Jun 2007 23:23:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:23:28 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 22 01:23:26 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 1I1Vzp-0002BG-Ac for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:23:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I1Vzo-0006A0-RQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:23:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I1Vzl-00069Y-G7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:23:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I1Vzi-00069J-MG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:23:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I1Vzi-00069E-JZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:23:18 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I1Vzi-00066a-5T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:23:18 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw3.us.oracle.com (rgmgw3.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.112]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l5LNNGPa002629 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:23:16 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by rgmgw3.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l5LN2vJ2021955 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:23:15 -0600 Original-Received: from dhcp-4op11-4op12-west-130-35-178-179.us.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 2978886681182467105; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:05:05 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <467AF6CC.2000300@gnu.org> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:73570 Archived-At: > How about if Emacs left the splash screen as the active buffer if there > were no files listed on the command-line, until the user deliberately > switches buffers (either with C-x C-f to edit a new file, or C-x b to > *scratch*) Some text editors start with no document open, as you suggest. Some others start with a new document open (sometimes named "new.txt") in a text mode. Personally, I usually start Emacs with Dired. That too might be a possibility: start in `~/'. That gives users flexibility in terms of opening existing files or new ones, and they can see what files are available. Another possibility is to have an explicit option for the startup directory (default `~/'). Just a thought.