Re: A wish, a plea

[Nic James Ferrier]

Karl Fogel <address@hidden> writes:

> Furthermore, the failure mode of the status quo is much more severe
> than the failure mode of being asked to save scratch work that you
> don't want to save.  In the first case you lose data; in the second,
> you may get annoyed with a question, but you don't lose any data.

Why do we need to alter *scratch* in this way?

Why can't we just change Emacs so that *scratch* is not the default
buffer for an unconfigured Emacs?


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Nic Ferrier
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