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Re: Scratch buffer annoyance


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Scratch buffer annoyance
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:24:52 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux)

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

> In the following patch the name of the new option is `initial-buffer'.
> I think it better fits to the existing option names in the same group
> `initialization'.

> Index: lisp/startup.el
              ^^^^^^^^^^

>   (defgroup initialization nil
>     "Emacs start-up procedure."
             ^^^^^^^^
> !   :group 'internal)
>   
>   (defcustom inhibit-splash-screen nil
>     "Non-nil inhibits the startup screen.
                            ^^^^^^^

>   (defgroup initialization nil
>     "Emacs start-up procedure."
             ^^^^^^^^

> ! (defcustom initial-buffer nil
> !   "Buffer to show after starting Emacs."
                            ^^^^^^^^

>   (defcustom inhibit-splash-screen nil
>     "Non-nil inhibits the startup screen.
                            ^^^^^^^

>     ;; Maybe display a startup screen.
                         ^^^^^^^

>       ;; Display a startup screen, after some preparations.
                     ^^^^^^^

Something is wrong here: DOC strings and comments very consistently
talk of "startup screen", yet the variable and group names themselves
draw from some irregular use of "initial", "initialization" and
"splash".

If all the explanations find "startup" the most understandable term to
use, there is no sense in being more creative when naming the
variables and groups.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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