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

[Kevin Rodgers]

Xah wrote:
> Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> > Agreed.  I think you should lobby the Emacs maintainers to include
> > something like the switch-to-new-buffer command I proposed.  But it
> > does need to be enhanced to prompt for saving when it is killed.
>
> You can help me with it, by filing a bug report on the *scratch*
> buffer, borrowing whatever part in my article you think you agree, or
> perhaps completely on your own reasons.

I will not file a bug report, because I don't think there is a bug to
fix.  I have already helped you (more than you have helped yourself)
by trying to implement the features you've requested.

> As you perhaps know, i've had quite few heated arguments here. This
> thread is now 120 messages going to the level of “fuck you's”. About 3
> or 4 similar threads on other emacs issues has happend in the past 2
> or 3 monhs.
>
> I'm not getting paid to debate.

And I am not getting paid to hack for you.  But I continue to hack, and
you continue to debate.

> The several items in emacs
> modernization proposals doesn't benefit me directly in any way, and it
> is not likly to be incorporated into emacs anytime soon.

This is the crux of the matter: If your proposals don't benefit you,
then absent a chorus of actual users who _would_ benefit from them, the
Emacs maintainers have no evidence that it is worth their effort to
implement them.

I myself have proposed several excellent improvements over the last 10
or 20 years that were not incorporated into Emacs.  :-)

> Instead of suggesting me to do something, why don't you do something
> about it? I'm not trying to be rude, and i very much appreciate your
> argument here, one of the 3 or 4 in this thread that actually are
> sincere and has content, in my opinion.

That is both laughable and rude.  I have done far more than you to
advance your proposal: I have implemented something.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA