Scratch buffer default text

Scratch buffer default text

[Rodrigo Lazo]

hi,

I would like to put some customized text in the header of the scratch
buffer, so its the first thing I see when I open emacs. How could I do
it?

Best regards

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Rodrigo Lazo (rlazo)

Re: Scratch buffer default text

[Johan Bockgård]

Rodrigo Lazo <rlazo.paz@gmail.com> writes:

> I would like to put some customized text in the header of the
> scratch buffer, so its the first thing I see when I open emacs. How
> could I do it?

Use the variable `initial-scratch-message'.

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Johan Bockgård

RE: Scratch buffer default text

[Drew Adams]

    I would like to put some customized text in the header of the scratch
    buffer, so its the first thing I see when I open emacs. How could I do
    it?

Put something like this in your .emacs.

  (save-excursion
    (set-buffer (get-buffer-create "*scratch*"))
    (insert "Evaluate Emacs Lisp expressions here. `C-h m' for
details\n\n\n\n\n")))

Re: Scratch buffer default text

[Rodrigo Lazo]

On Mon, 01 May 2006 19:15:39 +0200
bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) wrote:

> Rodrigo Lazo <rlazo.paz@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I would like to put some customized text in the header of the
> > scratch buffer, so its the first thing I see when I open emacs. How
> > could I do it?
> 
> Use the variable `initial-scratch-message'.

That's exactly what I was looking for. It solved half of my problem,
because I had set inhibit-splash-screen to t, so that message doesn't
appear (but my girlfriend do have enabled splash-screen so it did the
trick). For my case I would use Drew's solution, unless somebody else
has another way to solve it


Thanks a lot!

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Rodrigo Lazo (rlazo)