From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sascha Wilde Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A wish, a plea Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:03:22 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4679F561.4030600@hacksaw.org> <87d4zomyiw.fsf@red-bean.com> <87fy4kjy0k.fsf@red-bean.com> <467AF6CC.2000300@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182499313 3706 80.91.229.12 (22 Jun 2007 08:01:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:01:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Karl Fogel , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Hacksaw To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 22 10:01:51 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 1I1e5X-0007l5-4C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:01:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I1e5W-0006tD-HP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:01:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I1e5R-0006t8-0n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:01:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I1e5P-0006sv-7o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:01:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I1e5P-0006sr-2c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:01:43 -0400 Original-Received: from ns.km1136.keymachine.de ([62.141.58.119] helo=km1136.keymachine.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I1e5N-00028T-Gw; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:01:41 -0400 Original-Received: from kenny.sha-bang.de (xdslm043.osnanet.de [212.95.112.43]) (authenticated bits=0) by km1136.keymachine.de (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l5M81bpx020726; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:01:38 +0200 Original-Received: from wilde by kenny.sha-bang.de with local (Kenny MUA v.0409034.42) ID 1I1e70-00046F-Ap; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:03:22 +0200 In-Reply-To: <467AF6CC.2000300@gnu.org> (Jason Rumney's message of "Thu\, 21 Jun 2007 23\:08\:12 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (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:73589 Archived-At: Jason Rumney wrote: > 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*) Please don't. There is nothing more useless than a splash screen -- there is a good reason, that we have inhibit-splash-screen. Btw. it might be a good idea to separate inhibiting the splash screen from inhibiting the initial message in *scratch*... sascha -- Sascha Wilde : "GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple : actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions." : (Doug Gwyn - 22/Jun/91 in comp.unix.wizards)