Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Arguing that *scratch* should be removed entirely is a non-starter,
> since a non-negligible portion of users find it useful, but I
> sincerely don't see why reasonable people would want that, if we can
> find less extreme ways of getting it out of the way of those who don't
> need it.

Actually, it's the first time I ever heard something against the
*scratch* buffer.  But on the contrary, I've myself implemented a M-x
scratch command and I've seen several other people asking or
implementing it themselve, to recreate a *scratch* buffer when it has
been accidentally killed.

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