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Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer


From: Dan Espen
Subject: Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 23:25:36 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux)

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>  3. The “*scratch*” “buffer” is a INTRUSIVE IDIOSYNCRASY.
>
> The reason behind the *scratch* buffer is highly confidential, but since
> you're all trustworthy Emacs users here, I'll tell you (but please
> promise you won't tell anyone else):
>
>    It's an entrance test to the Emacs Church!

Are there alternate designs for the scratch buffer?
There are variations on everything else in Emacs.

-- 
Dan Espen


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