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Subject: Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer
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"Ludwig, Mark" <ludwig.mark@siemens.com> writes:

> The original post was from someone who doesn't like *scratch* to be
> the first thing he sees.  It seems clear that something in his
> customization is suppressing the normal startup screen (including
> possibly something at the site done by someone who likes seeing
> *scratch*...).

The original post was from someone who's an narcissistic idiot who
prefers to write hundreds of lines of profanities instead of adding a
single line to his ~/.emacs:

    (kill-buffer (get-buffer "*scratch*"))


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