Re: Scratch buffer annoyance

[Richard Stallman]

    > The text that changes is not that big, and I would expect people to
    > take it in in 5 seconds.
    >
    > But maybe people whose native language is not English would have
    > trouble.  Is that it?

    Yes, and it takes time not only to read the text, but also understand it
    and memorize information in the new program for beginners.

Well, if the text in the startup buffer is small enough,
we won't have to think about alternating screens.