From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:08:29 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <98adeba0-a97c-4369-9c31-aa6a198ff95e@pt7g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> References: <1bqkr.13803$mL3.9455@newsfe23.iad> <5Yxkr.15011$bU5.6213@newsfe04.iad> <99231f42-9486-427e-a340-7591223e6c08@u4g2000pbu.googlegroups.com> <4F96AE2F.8090405@mousecar.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335467415 13935 80.91.229.3 (26 Apr 2012 19:10:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:10:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 26 21:10:14 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 1SNU50-0000dv-7m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:10:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53278 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNU4z-0001Pt-GP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:10:13 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!pt7g2000pbc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.126.112.84 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1335467309 30405 127.0.0.1 (26 Apr 2012 19:08:29 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:08:29 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: pt7g2000pbc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.126.112.84; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.162 Safari/535.19,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192242 comp.emacs:102424 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:84652 Archived-At: On Apr 25, 3:39=A0am, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > () ken > () Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:44:15 -0400 > > =A0 =A0naive views and ridiculously low irritation thresholds > > such are those that spurn GPL for BSD: > soft-shade rose (a personal hell) for me not thee. > "i recognize as brothers > none from other mothers! > my heart knows (and maw does yell) ignorant sincerity." > > "everyone uses computers", true, but emacs chooses its friends. > you may court it, keys chorded, for the response that it sends. > a shoulder-length ear? > industrial strength leer? > what is *scratch* best for, to define beginnings or ends? justification of Emacs's *scratch*: emacs's *scratch* amounts to a bitch but we cannot ditch the banner of our church Xah