Re: Scratch buffer annoyance

[Chong Yidong]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Wouldn't it be smarter to make the initial splash screen the current
>     buffer when Emacs starts instead?  It would make sense for that to be
>     read-only, and when one does C-x C-q, it could for example clear it
>     and toggle the read-only status of the buffer (with a brief note in
>     the initial splash screen that one can do C-x C-q to convert it into a
>     "scratch" buffer).
>
> It is an interesting idea.  What do others think?

What's wrong with my original suggestion?

  (i) offer an option to adopt the Emacs 22 behavior for the *scratch*
  buffer, i.e. with buffer-offer-save and auto-save disabled, and (ii)
  delete the auto-save file if the user answers "no" when asked if
  *scratch* should be saved.