Bringing back a scratch buffer ?

Bringing back a scratch buffer ?

[jonetsu]

Simple question: If the scratch buffer gets inadvertently deleted, is it
possible to bring it back ?

Re: Bringing back a scratch buffer ?

[tomas]

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On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 09:55:17AM -0500, jonetsu wrote:
> Simple question: If the scratch buffer gets inadvertently deleted, is it
> possible to bring it back ?

Depends on what you mean by "bring back" :-)

There /is/ an internal function startup--get-buffer-create-scratch which
creates a *scratch* buffer and puts it in elisp interaction mode. The
nice and warm welcome text won't be there, though.

Coming from the other side, you can just have a buffer named *scratch*
created by just "changing into it" (i.e. C-x b *scratch* <enter>). It
won't be in Lisp interaction mode, though.

Cheers
-- t

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Re: Bringing back a scratch buffer ?

[jonetsu]

On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 16:14:16 +0100
<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

> Coming from the other side, you can just have a buffer named *scratch*
> created by just "changing into it" (i.e. C-x b *scratch* <enter>). It
> won't be in Lisp interaction mode, though.

Thanks !  Did not know about that - quite helpful.

Cheers.

Re: Bringing back a scratch buffer ?

[Michael Heerdegen]

<tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:

> Coming from the other side, you can just have a buffer named *scratch*
> created by just "changing into it" (i.e. C-x b *scratch* <enter>). It
> won't be in Lisp interaction mode, though.

It will (at least in my version of Emacs).

Michael.

Re: Bringing back a scratch buffer ?

[tomas]

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On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 05:16:36PM +0100, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> <tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:
> 
> > Coming from the other side, you can just have a buffer named *scratch*
> > created by just "changing into it" (i.e. C-x b *scratch* <enter>). It
> > won't be in Lisp interaction mode, though.
> 
> It will (at least in my version of Emacs).

You're right: if the (new) buffer is named *scratch* it is.

Thanks, cheers
-- tomás

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