From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:08:03 +0200 Message-ID: <87fwbz4eh8.fsf@dod.no> References: <877gxdyo3w.fsf@dod.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1334869703 30103 80.91.229.3 (19 Apr 2012 21:08:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:08:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 19 23:08:22 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SKyaR-0005hX-W4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:08:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58640 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SKyaQ-0008Gb-SH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:08:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52633) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SKyaL-0008GV-Sw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:08:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SKyaJ-0005J5-Sr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:08:13 -0400 Original-Received: from rainey.bang.priv.no ([212.110.185.190]:46311) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SKyaJ-0005HM-Ns for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:08:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Mark Ludwig's message of "Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:33:07 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 178.72.58.140 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: too long (recipient list exceeded maximum allowed size of 8 bytes) X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: sb@dod.no X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:51:10 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on rainey.bang.priv.no) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 212.110.185.190 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84517 Archived-At: >>>>> "Ludwig, Mark" : > Anyway, I've been an Emacs Lisp hacker for >20 years, and I very > rarely use *scratch*; I use the *scratch* buffer all the time. I use it as a generic copy/paste text buffer, and I use it to evaluate lisp expression (mostly just using it as a calculator).