From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: *scratch* lost Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:24:21 +0200 Organization: Anevia SAS Message-ID: <7cr5xlyeui.fsf@pbourguignon.anevia.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1245062559 26247 80.91.229.12 (15 Jun 2009 10:42:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:42:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 15 12:42:37 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MG9e7-0006nq-D9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:42:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41569 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MG9e6-0004Kc-QZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:42:34 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.esat.net!colt.net!feeder.news-service.com!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!usenet-fr.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed2-b.proxad.net!nnrp10-1.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NTQ4NTUxNTAyZGEwMDg5MGU1NDBkNjVjZmM2NGIwODY5YzI3MDk5NQ== Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Jun 2009 12:24:21 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.170.236.224 Original-X-Trace: 1245061461 news-1.free.fr 17000 88.170.236.224:60047 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170072 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:65300 Archived-At: "B. T. Raven" writes: > I was doing some key mapping in .emacs and instead of saving the file, > restarting Emacs, and testing the new assignment I was doing M-x eval > region on changed areas of .emacs Somehow all (or many) keychords > started acting strangely, e.g. C-x 1 would open subr.el in a new > buffer instead of showing current buffer alone in frame, even cursor > movement keys did something else. I killed .emacs buffer without > saving (losing changes) and then exited Emacs. On restarting > everything looks and works normally exept that *scratch* is empty > (three commented lines are missing) and it is in Fundamental mode > instead of Lisp Interaction. Can I get the old *scratch* buffer back? > How? (defun make-scratch () (interactive) (if (get-buffer "*scratch*") (switch-to-buffer (get-buffer "*scratch*")) (progn (switch-to-buffer (get-buffer-create "*scratch*")) (insert ";; 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. ") (emacs-lisp-mode)))) M-x make-scratch RET -- __Pascal Bourguignon__