Re: package.el

[David Kastrup]

Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:

> David> *scratch* is not guaranteed to be in emacs-lisp-mode. So C-j might
> David> not work. M-x eval-region would!
>
> I wasn't aware of this.  Is this a common situation?  Those
> instructions are intended for people who know very little about
> Emacs; are they likely to have changed the mode for *scratch*?

Primarily people with little knowledge about Emacs would be tempted to
change the mode for *scratch*...  On the other hand, they would be
likely to do a lot of other things one can't possibly guess in
advance.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum