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>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Rafferty <craffert@spspme.ml.com> writes:

> Hrvoje Niksic writes:

Hrv> No, I'd rather like having an option in the `Options' menu to that
Hrv> effect, like a checkbox named `Text mode in *scratch*', or some moren
Hrv> understandable construct.

Colin> Only if it is text by default.  What we want to have is an
Colin> editor that a new user can sit down and use.  Setting options
Colin> comes later.

Exactly.  There's also the issue that *scratch* is a special buffer,
and changing the mode on it and changing the default mode have global
implications.

I'm content in the short term to have the first buffer displayed come
up in text mode.
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