Re: *scratch* considered harmful

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Dhruva Krishnamurthy wrote:

>  In the 21.1.50 build, I find the initial buffer is named "*temp*"
>  (with info and welcome message) and not the "*scratch*" buffer that 
>  I see in 21.1 release build. Is it intentional or is there some other goal ?

Is it "*temp*" or " *temp*" (with the leading blank)?

If the latter, it normally means Emacs found some problem during startup.

In any case, today's CVS has startup.el which still creates *scratch*, 
not *temp*.