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

[Richard Riley]

stan <smoore@exis.net> writes:

> Richard Riley wrote:
>> stan <smoore@exis.net> writes:
>>
>>> Richard Riley wrote:
>>>> stan <smoore@exis.net> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Xah wrote:
>>>>>> Kevin Rodgers wrote:
>>>>>>
> <snip>
>>> The point wasn't really about intuitiveness, that of course in the eye
>>> of the beholder. I certainly didn't wake up one day thinking in terms of
>>> emacs chords; I had to learn them. I don't really think emacs is worse
>>> than vim, wordstar, ed, edlin, or any of a dozen proprietary things I've
>>> been forced to endure. I expect to have some learning, and I don't
>>> expect it to match windows.
>>>
>>> My point was that generalizing about editor users is at best difficult
>>> and most often impossible. Arguments like "people are confused" are
>>> silly and not persuasive. Some are confused and others are happy as
>>> clams. 
>>
>> Only if one thinks in B&W. I think it was fairly obvious that Xah was
>> not suggesting for one minute that 100% of people were confused.
>
> I think you missed the point here. It's not B&W it's also the grey. The
> NUMBER doesn't matter. It could be all, none, or something in between.

Uhm, that was my point :-;