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Subject: Re: A wish, a plea
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Hacksaw wrote:
> But my real wish is that *scratch* would just go away. IMHO, it's 
> usefulness is limited. And the chances that something important gets 
> lost because of a careless keystroke is too high.
> 
> Please help a poor writer?


No need to change Emacs. Just put something like this in your .emacs:

   (let ((b (get-buffer "*scratch*")))
     (when b
       (kill-buffer b)))

Happy writing, Hacksaw!