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Re: How to get rid of *GNU Emacs* buffer on start-up?


From: Nikolaj Schumacher
Subject: Re: How to get rid of *GNU Emacs* buffer on start-up?
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:29:17 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2.50 (darwin)

Xah Lee <xah@xahlee.org> wrote:

> many apps, including most browsers and text editor, can start without
> a window present. (on the Mac)
>
>  In fact, i think that's most apps behave on the Mac these days. (as
> opposed to must having a window present. (on Windows, this is somewhat
> irrelavent since each app are often in its own window with menu bar))
>
> In AquaMacs for example, you can close all buffers, windows, frames,
> without quiting the app.

Correct.  That's how apps are supposed to behave on Macs according to
the human interface guidelines.  It's more document than app based.

However this mechanism can't simply be adapted for other operating
systems.  On Windows and most X systems, closing the last window is
expected to terminate the application and there's no way to access a
window-less application (other than notification area hacks).  So this
is not a viable solution.


regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher




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