Re: *scratch* considered harmful

[Jason Rumney]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Dhruva Krishnamurthy wrote:
> 
> >  When I run emacs with "emacs --no-init-file --no-site-file", I get
> >  the emacs window and the startup buffer is "*temp*" (without a
> >  leading space). This buffer used to be "*scratch*" before in which
> >  the help or some common key mappings is shown for a specific period
> >  of time. After this time elapses, the buffer changes to the normal
> >  "*scratch*" buffer as it used to from the time I know. This happens
> >  on Emacs-21.1.50 (mingw-nt) without splash screen.
> 
> Seems to be Windows-specific; I don't have a CVS version of the Windows 
> port to try.
> 
> Jason, could you please advise?

I am surprised if it is Windows specific, it seems to be caused by the
following change:

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

        * startup.el (fancy-splash-tail): Explain how to recover
        from a crash, if there was a crash.
        (command-line-1): Reorganize display of startup screen,
        to simplify the logic.  Use a temp buffer for it.


IIRC, there was a bug report about lisp-interaction-mode's syntax
highlighting interfering with the display of the splash screen, and
the above was the fix for it.


-- 
Jason Rumney