From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giorgos Keramidas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get rid of *GNU Emacs* buffer on start-up? Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:22:14 +0300 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <87k5d1kfmx.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <873ajzwoqu.fsf@kobe.laptop> <823901dd-c54c-4e3b-b6ad-512d52724a46@z11g2000prl.googlegroups.com> <15b2444a-fece-4781-b57b-5e738ed1d202@a29g2000pra.googlegroups.com> <26f9d70d-4131-42f1-a368-42aa0d28a940@b30g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <8896a071-1a1d-4185-b723-b32e5e1aaaf3@b30g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1222256541 3831 80.91.229.12 (24 Sep 2008 11:42:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:42:21 +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 Sep 24 13:43:19 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KiSls-0004Zr-M2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:43:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46265 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KiSkq-0003AP-Kd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:42:00 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.news-service.com!news-out1.kabelfoon.nl!newsfeed.kabelfoon.nl!bandi.nntp.kabelfoon.nl!news.banetele.no!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:l1oJR3N136/TEyCXnzP2xACfY/w= Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 77.49.104.240 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=kVGJGL^MjgbH?lJH1TkjlCNeYfLbomhf4WI7=Lk3ROo Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:162652 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:57995 Archived-At: On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:32:24 -0700, ross@rosslaird.info (Ross A. Laird) wrote: > I don't use the scratch buffer all that much, but I like to know that > it's there. I copy snippets of text to it, and I sometimes use it to > create odd little literary vignettes that I may not wish to save. It's > useful. +1 I very often use the *scratch* buffer as, uhm, a "scratch pad" when I chat online with friends using ERC. It is very useful as a temporary scratch pad when I am preparing something to paste. I get the full editing capabilities of Emacs: I can untabify, indent, wrap and do anything else that is `normal' for the target channel or query buffer; it is easy to pull text off other windows or the kill ring; and when I'm done preparing the text I can copy it with M-w and paste it to the final target buffer in its well-formatted finished form. Then the *scratch* buffer can go away. I don't need it anymore and it gets buried in the buffer list, until I need it again.