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Re: Scratch buffer annoyance


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: Scratch buffer annoyance
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 00:20:46 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux)

>> 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".

I think these names could be unified under the same name later after
achieving an agreement on the best one.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/




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