From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get rid of default lines in the *scratch* buffer Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 08:53:38 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4b37884b-d344-4a69-934a-ec1fbc2fdaa2@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418219671 11330 80.91.229.3 (10 Dec 2014 13:54:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 13:54:31 +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 Dec 10 14:54:24 2014 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 1Xyhih-0006Lq-SY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 14:54:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45850 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xyhih-00044s-H0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 08:54:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33860) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyhiP-0003IR-Iw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 08:54:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyhiI-0008QZ-3X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 08:54:05 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:39939) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyhiH-0008Pm-TR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 08:53:58 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XyhiE-00065A-Ie for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 14:53:54 +0100 Original-Received: from 23-91-147-37.cpe.pppoe.ca ([23.91.147.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 14:53:54 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 23-91-147-37.cpe.pppoe.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 14:53:54 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 23-91-147-37.cpe.pppoe.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:gVyfsXwlaNSBdbhbdMayagW6L4o= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:101501 Archived-At: > (switch-to-buffer-other-frame "*scratch*") > (delete-region (point-min) (point-max)) If you only want to empty the buffer, without any other side effects (such as displaying the buffer elsewhere): (with-current-buffer "*scratch*" (delete-region (point-min) (point-max))) or just (with-current-buffer "*scratch*" (erase-buffer)) -- Stefan