Re: *scratch* lost

["B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>]

inhibit-startup-screen is nil

initial-scratch-message is ";; This buffer is for notes you don't want 
to save, and for Lisp evaluation.\n;; If you want to create a file, 
visit that file with C-x C-f,\n;; then enter the text in that file's own 
buffer.\n\n"

initial-major-mode is lisp-interaction-mode

Emacs version is w32 22.3


B. T. Raven wrote:
> I was doing some key mapping in .emacs and instead of saving the file, 
> restarting Emacs, and testing the new assignment I was doing M-x eval 
> region on changed areas of .emacs Somehow all (or many) keychords 
> started acting strangely, e.g. C-x 1 would open subr.el in a new buffer 
> instead of showing current buffer alone in frame, even cursor movement 
> keys did something else. I killed .emacs buffer without saving (losing 
> changes) and then exited Emacs. On restarting everything looks and works 
> normally exept that *scratch* is empty (three commented lines are 
> missing) and it is in Fundamental mode instead of Lisp Interaction. Can 
> I get the old *scratch* buffer back? How?
> 
> Ed