Re: Initial scratch message missing with desktop-save-mode on

[Glenn Morris]

Richard Stallman wrote:

>     I belive this is because command-line-1 only inserts the
>     initial-scratch-message if the scratch buffer is selected. Restoring a
>     desktop buries the scratch buffer. The following patch would fix this.
>     It reverts the behaviour to what it was before rev 1.270 of
>     startup.el.
>
> This change was made for a reason.  Just reverting it is not a
> solution.

Well, it was your change:


2001-11-03  Richard M. Stallman  <address@hidden>

  (command-line-1): Reorganize display of startup screen,
  to simplify the logic.  Use a temp buffer for it.


so can you enlighten us as to the reason for this part of it?

It looks to me that you simply decided not to insert the initial
scratch message if another buffer had been selected during startup. I
can't see a good reason for this, and believe there would be no harm
in reverting this small part of your change in the way I suggested.

(If I hadn't written the last sentence you quote above, would we be
having this discussion?).