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* About the scratch buffer's name.
@ 2021-07-04  3:47 Hongyi Zhao
  2021-07-04 15:50 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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From: Hongyi Zhao @ 2021-07-04  3:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

I noticed that the name of scratch buffer is not displayed in the
capitalized manner, i.e., Scratch, as other buffers do. Is this due to
certain historical reasons and conventions?

Regards
-- 
Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Hebei Vocational University of Technology and Engineering
NO. 552 North Gangtie Road, Xingtai, China



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* Re: About the scratch buffer's name.
  2021-07-04  3:47 About the scratch buffer's name Hongyi Zhao
@ 2021-07-04 15:50 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor @ 2021-07-04 15:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

Hongyi Zhao wrote:

> I noticed that the name of scratch buffer is not displayed
> in the capitalized manner, i.e., Scratch, as other buffers
> do. Is this due to certain historical reasons
> and conventions?

Don't know, but there are other buffers that look like that,
e.g.

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and

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