GNU bug report logs - #147
23.0.60; scratch buffer initial text

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:10:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 146, 1564

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: <emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org>, submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; scratch buffer initial text
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:58:37 -0400
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> This is the current text:
>  
> ;; This buffer is for notes you don't want to save, and for Lisp evaluation.
> ;; If you want to create a file, visit that file with C-x C-f,
> ;; then enter the text in that file's own buffer.
>  
> For newbies, it's not clear that you can "visit that file" for a file
> that does not yet exist. Also, the last part about "file's own buffer"
> is not clear. And the emphasis should be on Lisp evaluation here and
> the fact that this buffer is not saved.

I don't think these phrases are prone to confusion.  Anyway, new users
are now presented with the fancy startup screen, not the scratch buffer.
Let's not worry about this.




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