Re: *scratch* considered harmful

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Dhruva Krishnamurthy wrote:

>  When I run emacs with "emacs --no-init-file --no-site-file", I get
>  the emacs window and the startup buffer is "*temp*" (without a
>  leading space). This buffer used to be "*scratch*" before in which
>  the help or some common key mappings is shown for a specific period
>  of time. After this time elapses, the buffer changes to the normal
>  "*scratch*" buffer as it used to from the time I know. This happens
>  on Emacs-21.1.50 (mingw-nt) without splash screen.

Seems to be Windows-specific; I don't have a CVS version of the Windows 
port to try.

Jason, could you please advise?