Re: Scratch buffer annoyance

[David Kastrup]

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.

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David Kastrup