How to get rid of default lines in the *scratch* buffer

How to get rid of default lines in the *scratch* buffer

[chickenkinwing]

By default, the *scratch* buffer contains 2 lines of
"-- Press Enter here to update --".

I find it a major annoyance for me. I have to remove them manually.

Is there a way to automatically get rid of these lines (to make scratch buffer empty) when the *scratch* buffer starts?

Thanks


Peter

Re: How to get rid of default lines in the *scratch* buffer

[Marco Wahl]

chickenkinwing@gmail.com writes:

> By default, the *scratch* buffer contains 2 lines of
> "-- Press Enter here to update --".
>
> I find it a major annoyance for me. I have to remove them manually.
>
> Is there a way to automatically get rid of these lines (to make scratch buffer empty) when the *scratch* buffer starts?
>

What about M-x customize-variable initial-scratch-message?  Does this help?

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Re: How to get rid of default lines in the *scratch* buffer

[Rusi]

On Tuesday, December 9, 2014 10:34:25 PM UTC+5:30, Marco Wahl wrote:
> chickenkinwing wrote:
> 
> > By default, the *scratch* buffer contains 2 lines of
> > "-- Press Enter here to update --".
> >
> > I find it a major annoyance for me. I have to remove them manually.
> >
> > Is there a way to automatically get rid of these lines (to make scratch buffer empty) when the *scratch* buffer starts?
> >
> 
> What about M-x customize-variable initial-scratch-message?  Does this help?

Also look at the variable inhibit-startup-message

Re: How to get rid of default lines in the *scratch* buffer

[Robert Thorpe]

chickenkinwing@gmail.com writes:

> By default, the *scratch* buffer contains 2 lines of
> "-- Press Enter here to update --".
>
> I find it a major annoyance for me. I have to remove them manually.
>
> Is there a way to automatically get rid of these lines (to make scratch buffer empty) when the *scratch* buffer starts?

I don't have any lines saying "-- Press Enter here to update --" in my *scratch*.

Does this happen to you with emacs -Q ?

I think you have a package that's outputting text to the wrong buffer on
initialization.

To delete the normal lines in scratch do (delete-region (point-min)
(point-max)) in *scratch*.

BR,
Robert Thorpe

Re: How to get rid of default lines in the *scratch* buffer

[chickenkinwing]

Thanks everyone for posting replies to my question.

With emacs -Q, I did not get the 2 lines.

My .emacs already has these lines:
(setq inhibit-startup-message t)                      
(setq initial-scratch-message nil)    

I am leaning to agree with the hypothesis put forth by Robert Thorpe: wrong output buffer for 2 packages during initialization.

I am too lazy to find out which.

So, I put the following 2 statements at the end of my .emacs file.
And it kills all text in the *scratch* at startup.

(switch-to-buffer-other-frame "*scratch*")
(delete-region (point-min) (point-max))

Thanks, Robert, specifically for the delete-region function suggestion.

Re: How to get rid of default lines in the *scratch* buffer

[Stefan Monnier]

> (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

Re: How to get rid of default lines in the *scratch* buffer

[Nicolas Richard]

chickenkinwing@gmail.com writes:
> By default, the *scratch* buffer contains 2 lines of
> "-- Press Enter here to update --".

That might be twittering-mode. It uses those lines, exactly.

-- 
Nicolas Richard

Re: How to get rid of default lines in the *scratch* buffer

[chickenkinwing]

Thanks, Nicolas Richard.  Indeed, it is twittering-mode which outputs those 2 lines to *scratch*.

Problem solved, thanks everyone for responding.