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RE: Scratch buffer annoyance
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: Scratch buffer annoyance |
Date: |
Sun, 22 Jul 2007 06:26:33 -0700 |
> 1. Open to the *Customize Browser* buffer. I think you're
> proposing this.
>
> 2. Open to the *Customize Group* buffer (say *Customize Group:
> convenience*).
>
> 3. Open to the *Customize Option: visit-on-startup* buffer.
>
> #3 sounds too specific. Yes, it would enable someone to turn
> off the splash screen, but it wouldn't show that there are other
> possibilities.
>
> I think #2 is best. It avoids unnecessary indirection while showing
> more than just one option.
>
> Whenever the user asks to customize a single option, should
> we just open the browser to a browser display that shows
> that option or its group somewhere on it
>
> That's a different issue. When the user specifically asks to customize
> one option, we should provide that option. But here the user
> would be asking to "customize the startup screen". That is NOT
> a request for one option.
It was at the time of the message you replied to - the single option was
`visit-on-startup'. However, since then, the discussion moved on.
My last proposal was that the link [Customize Startup Display] lead to
`customize-group' for a customize group `startup-display'. That buffer,
`*Customize Group: startup-display*' would show everything for the startup
display:
> `visit-on-startup' [Hide Value] [Value Menu]
> What to show/visit on startup.
>
> `fancy-splash-screen' group: Go to Group
> Fancy splash screen when Emacs starts.
With this approach, #2 above becomes the same thing: go to the customize
group, which would be `startup-display'.
Startup display deserves its own group because (1) most of the stuff in
group `initialization' has nothing to do with the startup display, and (2)
`visit-on-startup' is about the startup display, but it is not about the
`fancy-splash-screen'. This new goldilocks group is just right for
everything about the startup display. It doesn't include everything about
initialization, and it includes more than just the splash screen.
- RE: Scratch buffer annoyance, (continued)
- RE: Scratch buffer annoyance, Drew Adams, 2007/07/20
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Mathias Dahl, 2007/07/21
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, David Kastrup, 2007/07/21
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, David Kastrup, 2007/07/21
- RE: Scratch buffer annoyance, Drew Adams, 2007/07/21
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, David Kastrup, 2007/07/21
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/22
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, David Kastrup, 2007/07/22
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/23
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/21
- RE: Scratch buffer annoyance,
Drew Adams <=
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