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Re: Scratch buffer annoyance
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: Scratch buffer annoyance |
Date: |
Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:02:01 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.51 (gnu/linux) |
David Reitter <address@hidden> writes:
> On 17 Jul 2007, at 16:05, Richard Stallman wrote:
>
>> Wouldn't it be smarter to make the initial splash screen the
>> current buffer when Emacs starts instead? It would make sense for
>> that to be read-only, and when one does C-x C-q, it could for
>> example clear it and toggle the read-only status of the buffer (with
>> a brief note in the initial splash screen that one can do C-x C-q to
>> convert it into a "scratch" buffer).
>> It is an interesting idea. What do others think?
>
> This will make Emacs even more difficult to use for new or occasional
> users. They would need to know a key combination just to get started.
> And it would be much more annoying than the current situation.
>
> What's wrong with
>
> - automatically saving *scratch* in a place other than ~/ (where it is
> out of the way) via auto-save and before exiting Emacs, without any
> user interaction
That it doesn't work when one has more than one Emacs active at one
time. It is not like we have not been through that already.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, (continued)
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Johan Bockgård, 2007/07/17
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, David Reitter, 2007/07/17
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Tassilo Horn, 2007/07/17
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Robert J. Chassell, 2007/07/17
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, David Reitter, 2007/07/17
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/18
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Robert J. Chassell, 2007/07/18
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2007/07/17
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Tassilo Horn, 2007/07/17
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2007/07/17
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, David Reitter, 2007/07/17
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/18
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, David Kastrup, 2007/07/18
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/19
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2007/07/17
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, David Kastrup, 2007/07/17
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Mathias Dahl, 2007/07/17
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Jason Rumney, 2007/07/17
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Johan Bockgård, 2007/07/17
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Tassilo Horn, 2007/07/17