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Re: *scratch* lost
From: |
Pascal J. Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: *scratch* lost |
Date: |
Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:24:21 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) |
"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?
(defun make-scratch ()
(interactive)
(if (get-buffer "*scratch*")
(switch-to-buffer (get-buffer "*scratch*"))
(progn
(switch-to-buffer (get-buffer-create "*scratch*"))
(insert ";; This buffer is for notes you don't want to save, and for
Lisp evaluation.
;; If you want to create a file, visit that file with C-x C-f,
;; then enter the text in that file's own buffer.
")
(emacs-lisp-mode))))
M-x make-scratch RET
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__Pascal Bourguignon__