From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:52:19 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87vcktgmsc.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <1bqkr.13803$mL3.9455@newsfe23.iad> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335020120 13887 80.91.229.3 (21 Apr 2012 14:55:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:55:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 21 16:55:16 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 1SLbiT-0005BQ-Fu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:55:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48238 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLbiS-0003Hy-QV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:55:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Trace: individual.net zC9dKlRBs7gAbURMKdJOlwkyAvAIjG4pSlObMuzriPxbJ6UzR3 Cancel-Lock: sha1:YTI2ZGU3ZDM5ZDE1OWJlMzE2YjQ5NjNiMzZjNDgxOWJlYzg0OWY4YQ== sha1:GigI18twTzDYAg/VBvyJk54A9iI= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en Importance: high User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192147 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:84562 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > Arguing that *scratch* should be removed entirely is a non-starter, > since a non-negligible portion of users find it useful, but I > sincerely don't see why reasonable people would want that, if we can > find less extreme ways of getting it out of the way of those who don't > need it. Actually, it's the first time I ever heard something against the *scratch* buffer. But on the contrary, I've myself implemented a M-x scratch command and I've seen several other people asking or implementing it themselve, to recreate a *scratch* buffer when it has been accidentally killed. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.