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* ). It won't be in Lisp interaction mode, though. Cheers -- t