From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:27:39 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <3zBkr.4537$zA4.1420@newsfe19.iad> <87mx646q87.fsf@pangea.home.gustad.com> Reply-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335090486 32139 80.91.229.3 (22 Apr 2012 10:28:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 10:28:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 22 12:28:06 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 1SLu1U-0000tI-UH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:28:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60016 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLu1U-0003aI-72 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2012 06:28:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47879) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLu1O-0003ZT-Lh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2012 06:27:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLu1M-0001nU-W2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2012 06:27:58 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41323) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLu1M-0001nM-PW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2012 06:27:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SLu1H-0000kN-40 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:27:51 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:27:51 +0200 Original-Received: from rileyrg by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:27:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LF2TkEWgYHWQaV7dx9nyBB7sqLE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:84593 Archived-At: Petter Gustad writes: > Chiron writes: > >> On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:08:25 -0400, Dan Espen wrote: >> >>> I'm having a hard time figuring out what _would_ be useful in a scratch >>> buffer. >> >> I use it to check out lisp statements as I try to learn the language. > > You can do that with any buffer associated with lisp-interaction-mode > > C-x b my-elisp-eval-buffer > M-x lisp-interaction-mode > > //Petter precisely, as well as create your own scratch buffer from your .emacs if you're anyway proficient enough to even want a scratch buffer : which was the main point about usability and "first look" impressions. Even learning emacs and some elisp for customisation I can honestly say I never once used the scratch buffer, all interation and evaluation went on from my init.el as it went-