From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:08:25 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335024613 11496 80.91.229.3 (21 Apr 2012 16:10:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:10:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 21 18:10:13 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 1SLct3-00009T-3P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 18:10:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47268 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLct2-0005O1-EN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:10:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 22 Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="r1I8FMucvIpl17p2khJImw"; logging-data="28261"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/fnwsujrkZsU3jIABdoVkh6yq09mAmqaM=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:q/mzXnyRT7cKPPe7QRs7hYt71z4= sha1:yuWsn8l9qhJlyXYGg9cCI//8cSU= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192156 comp.emacs:102414 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:84571 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >>>> 3. The “*scratch*” “buffer” is a INTRUSIVE IDIOSYNCRASY. >>> The reason behind the *scratch* buffer is highly confidential, but since >>> you're all trustworthy Emacs users here, I'll tell you (but please >>> promise you won't tell anyone else): >>> It's an entrance test to the Emacs Church! >> Are there alternate designs for the scratch buffer? >> There are variations on everything else in Emacs. > > Surprisingly, it looks nobody was sufficiently annoyed to come up with > an alternative. Which doesn't surprise me. I just happily ignored the > *scratch* buffer for most of my early Emacs-user life, and I expect > most people do too. Yep. I'm having a hard time figuring out what _would_ be useful in a scratch buffer. -- Dan Espen