From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:39:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1bqkr.13803$mL3.9455@newsfe23.iad> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335019216 7836 80.91.229.3 (21 Apr 2012 14:40:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:40:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 21 16:40:15 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SLbTz-0005sl-4b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:40:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43043 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLbTy-00087n-4i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:40:14 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe05.iad.POSTED!00000000!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.94 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:IvG9c10v60U2hoATL+4B6jOAh6s= Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@UsenetServer.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:39:33 UTC X-Received-Bytes: 1341 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192143 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84557 Archived-At: > OK, so here's the situation, as I understand it: > 1. The maintainers of emacs are happy with the way it is right now. > 2. The maintainers probably *use* emacs for their work - so it's one of > the tools in their toolbox. > 3. You want these maintainers to modify their tool in ways they don't > like, in order to make their tool more appealing to more people. I doubt that most Emacs maintainers have a strong opinion on how the *scratch* buffer should work. Stefan