Re: *scratch* lost

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Stefan Kamphausen <skampi@gmx.net> writes:

> Hi,
>
> pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes:
>
>> "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net> writes:
>>
>>> I was doing some key mapping in .emacs and instead of saving the file,
>>> restarting Emacs, and testing the new assignment I was doing M-x eval
>>> region on changed areas of .emacs Somehow all (or many) keychords
>>> started acting strangely, e.g. C-x 1 would open subr.el in a new
>>> buffer instead of showing current buffer alone in frame, even cursor
>>> movement keys did something else. I killed .emacs buffer without
>>> saving (losing changes) and then exited Emacs. On restarting
>>> everything looks and works normally exept that *scratch* is empty
>>> (three commented lines are missing) and it is in Fundamental mode
>>> instead of Lisp Interaction. Can I get the old *scratch* buffer back?
>>> How?
>
> Maybe you somehow interfered with the variables
>
> * inhibit-startup-screen
> * initial-scratch-message
>
> ? 
>
>>
>> (defun make-scratch ()
>
> [...]
>
>>     (emacs-lisp-mode))))
>>
>>
>> M-x make-scratch RET
>
> Hm, I don't seem to need that.  I can always M-x switch-to-buffer
> *scratch* RET (having to type "*scratch*" without completion since it
> may have been killed) and end up in a perfect stracth-buffer with
> lisp-interaction-mode.  It even works with iswitchb-buffer which asks
> before creating the new buffer.

Of course, but if you want to insert the initial-scratch-message...
And switch-to-buffer creates a buffer in default-major-mode, not
emacs-lisp-mode.

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__Pascal Bourguignon__