From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tami Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: A good use for scratch buffer (was: Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer) Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 20:14:24 -0500 Message-ID: <20384.35440.56474.123950@rocky.wb5aoh.ampr.org> Reply-To: tami@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335924191 23288 80.91.229.3 (2 May 2012 02:03:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 02:03:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 02 04:03:10 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 1SPOuG-0001aS-Hf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 May 2012 04:03:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43681 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPOuF-0003C7-RQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 May 2012 22:03:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41858) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPOtA-00034h-VN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2012 22:01:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPOt9-0007xG-9J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2012 22:01:56 -0400 Original-Received: from adsl-64-149-184-62.dsl.austtx.sbcglobal.net ([64.149.184.62]:34390 helo=eric.tensleep.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPOt9-0007wu-1r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2012 22:01:55 -0400 Original-Received: from rocky.wb5aoh.ampr.org (pppclient.eric.tensleep.com [172.22.1.2]) by eric.tensleep.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B28437E4D for ; Tue, 1 May 2012 21:01:50 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by rocky.wb5aoh.ampr.org (Postfix on SuSE Linux 8.0 (i386), from userid 9049) id 578072FC97; Tue, 1 May 2012 20:14:24 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: VM 7.04 under Emacs 21.1.1 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Received-From: 64.149.184.62 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 01 May 2012 22:02:59 -0400 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:84697 Archived-At: While reading this thread, I was interrupted by the doorbell. After I got rid of the solicitor, I found one of the cats playing with the keyboard. She made a small mess on the screen, but no damage to my files or keyboard. My cats won't use their scratching post but they will use the scratch buffer. If you really despise "scratch", just call up a new filename and get an empty named file that you can do what you want in and save or not, as you please. For every feature you don't use, there are many of us who can't live without it. I have been using emacs for 22 years and there are features I never use and know nothing about. Many of them are discussed on this list. For every "useless" feature you don't use, there are thousands who can't live without it. Some day you might need it, too. "Scratch" has always been the file you can't get rid of that keeps you from inadvertantly falling out of emacs and losing all your unsaved buffers. And it amuses the cats. :) .Tami .signature: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected