Re: Scratch buffer annoyance

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     > A string is a file name to visit.
>
>     Then there is no distinction between file and directory names, but maybe
>     this is not needed provided that this string is always used as an argument
>     of `find-file'.
>
> Exactly.
>
>     > A symbol that's a command is an initial major mode for *scratch*.
>
>     There is already a user option `initial-major-mode' that defines
>     an initial major mode for *scratch*.  Using two user options
>     for the same setting would be confusing.
>
> We could alias this variable to `initial-major-mode', or we
> could say that t means use a *scratch* buffer.

Then it would not be possible to specify a mode for *scratch* unless
one also makes *scratch* the startup screen.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum