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

[Alan Mackenzie]

Xah Lee <xah@xahlee.org> wrote:
> Hi Eli moron,

> U wrote:
>> If you want people to listen to your ideas seriously, you will wish to
>> make a point of expressing them accurately.

> Please understand, that the level of precision and time spend in
> writing needed depends on the context. You would be a fool, to spend
> one year to compose a newsgroup post. And, you would be moron if you
> nickpick on spellings and phrasings that are not critical to the main
> ideas.

Sometimes, Xah, your spellings and phrasings, to say nothing of your
wierd variable length quotes with dangling bits, make your message all
but indecipherable.

Eli has one up on you there.  English isn't his native language either,
yet he manages to convey his ideas with style and panache.

> I'm not sure ur a moron, but i wondered, because in my previous
> message i specifically pointed out that please focus on main ideas.
> You seem to me don't have much general education to sufficiently
> understand the situation, but gave a retort about precision that is
> typical of sophomorons.

OK, back to the main point.  It seems that `switch-to-buffer' (C-x b)
does pretty much what you want.  Except you seem upset that when you do
M-x kill-buffer, Emacs kills the buffer.  I'd be unhappy if it didn't.

Actually, you'd be better typing C-x k.  All you want, I think, is that
Emacs should give you a warning when you're about to kill such a buffer.
 
Why don't you implement this and post it up?  It's not rocket science,
and you do have a basic grasp of Emacs Lisp.  You seem to expect that
somebody else should do the work of implementing your ideas - that's
just not the way things work.  Implement it now - it should take more
than an hour or two to modify C-x b - then we can try it out to see how
good it actually is.

> Fuck you.

Xah, don't try to fuck - you're not very good at it.  Write some Elisp
instead.

>  Xah

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).