From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Scratch buffer annoyance Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:29:40 +0200 Message-ID: References: <871wf5cv6y.fsf@jurta.org> <7dbe73ed0707190725l426d0731u5f9c36cd14278f78@mail.gmail.com> <87k5st7iqt.fsf@jurta.org> <87sl7ebwtk.fsf@jurta.org> <87sl7d9w9s.fsf@jurta.org> <874pjp5xl5.fsf@jurta.org> <87abtfo9vr.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185892207 23451 80.91.229.12 (31 Jul 2007 14:30:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:30:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 31 16:30:00 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 1IFsjX-0003DJ-2n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:29:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IFsjW-0003cv-JJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:29:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IFsjM-0003QM-Jz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:29:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IFsjK-0003PR-J5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:29:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IFsjK-0003PL-Cv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:29:46 -0400 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2] helo=mx1.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IFsjI-0000fN-Eg; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:29:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Relay2.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 628F312294; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:29:41 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: Feel th' WHIRLING BUFFERS buffing away all that stress... Years of ROAD TAR gently washing away... In-Reply-To: <87abtfo9vr.fsf@jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Sun\, 29 Jul 2007 12\:18\:08 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) 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:75860 Archived-At: Juri Linkov writes: >> > ! (defcustom initial-buffer nil >> > ! "Buffer to show after starting Emacs." >> > ! :type '(choice >> > ! (directory :tag "Directory" :value "~/") >> > ! (file :tag "File" :value "~/new.txt= ") >> > ! (const :tag "*scratch* buffer" :value "*scratch*= ") >> > ! (const :tag "Splash screen" nil)) "*scratch*" should be represented differently, since it is used as a buffer name instead of a file name. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."