Re: Scratch buffer annoyance

[David Reitter]

On 15 Jul 2007, at 22:37, Leo wrote:

> Everybody knows what *scratch* means. Why would someone want to save
> things in scratch? Or why would they put important things in *scratch*
> in the first place?

Many users seem to do just that. See the discussion earlier on this  
mailing list.

But why do the auto-save files have to go in ~/, and not somewhere  
where they don't annoy the user? Why is there more than one auto-save  
file? Isn't that a bug?

Why is the user asked at all whether *scratch* should be saved? That  
is annoying. If anything, *scratch* should be automatically  
persistent. It's still not meant to be a buffer that is saved to a  
user-managed file. It's just supposed to be persistent so that  
restarting Emacs doesn't have a devastating effect!