From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikolaj Schumacher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get rid of *GNU Emacs* buffer on start-up? Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:05:27 +0200 Message-ID: References: <873ajzwoqu.fsf@kobe.laptop> <823901dd-c54c-4e3b-b6ad-512d52724a46@z11g2000prl.googlegroups.com> <15b2444a-fece-4781-b57b-5e738ed1d202@a29g2000pra.googlegroups.com> <26f9d70d-4131-42f1-a368-42aa0d28a940@b30g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <785ef809-e748-4291-a25a-1487b27aa39f@z11g2000prl.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1222196780 2153 80.91.229.12 (23 Sep 2008 19:06:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:06:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Xah Lee Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 23 21:07:17 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KiDDn-000847-Le for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:06:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43000 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KiDCl-0003sm-OC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:05:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KiDCV-0003sH-3f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:05:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KiDCU-0003rw-Hf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:05:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51391 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KiDCU-0003rs-Az for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:05:30 -0400 Original-Received: from dd18200.kasserver.com ([85.13.138.168]:48351) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KiDCU-0004Dk-2R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:05:30 -0400 Original-Received: from thursday (BAH779d.bah.pppool.de [77.135.119.157]) by dd18200.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B9F218093F43; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:05:33 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <785ef809-e748-4291-a25a-1487b27aa39f@z11g2000prl.googlegroups.com> (Xah Lee's message of "Mon\, 22 Sep 2008 10\:06\:41 -0700 \(PDT\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2.50 (darwin) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:57969 Archived-At: Xah Lee wrote: > Yes. Though that doesn't constitute a good argument against Untitled > for replacement of *scratch*. Of course not. I never mentioned scratch. I just said that this can't be the solution. (Why did you bring it up?) > However, as far as my experience goes, apps that require you to have a > window present is pretty much gone these days. Off hand i cant think > of a app now in Mac that requires you having at least one window > present. >From the top of my head, System Preferences, Software Update, iPhoto or Photo Booth. I think it's generally a reasonable behavior for all apps that don't display (multiple) documents. I think some 3rd party apps are inappropriately overusing this behavior. regards, Nikolaj Schumacher