"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
Hacksaw wrote:
But my real wish is that *scratch* would just go away. IMHO, it's
usefulness is limited. And the chances that something important gets
lost because of a careless keystroke is too high.
Please help a poor writer?
No need to change Emacs. Just put something like this in your .emacs:
(let ((b (get-buffer "*scratch*")))
(when b
(kill-buffer b)))
Happy writing, Hacksaw!
I don't think Hacksaw was writing to ask us for help in solving his
problem. He was writing to ask us to help future users *avoid* what
happened to him.
Emacs gives the user total control, but that does not diminish the
importance of choosing reasonable defaults. The current *scratch*
buffer is a punitive default; Hacksaw is suggesting that we choose
another default.