RE: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer

[Ludwig, Mark]

> From: Chiron
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 4:12 PM
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer
> 
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:47:40 -0700, Bug Dout wrote:
> 
> > Several good points. But given the ultra-conservative nature of
> > emacsians, changes will never be implemented. Gnu Emacs remains firmly
> > in the last century.
> 
> And really, "better" is a judgement made by each user....  
> 
> If Emacs works for you, use it.  If not, don't, or fix what you feel is
> wrong with it.  It's nothing but the most highly customizable editor on
> the planet.

Right, and I appreciate learning some simple ways to make *scratch* more 
useful, as well as finding the stray code in .emacs that was suppressing the 
startup screen.

The original post was from someone who doesn't like *scratch* to be the first 
thing he sees.  It seems clear that something in his customization is 
suppressing the normal startup screen (including possibly something at the site 
done by someone who likes seeing *scratch*...).

Cheers,
Mark