bug#11298: Scratch buffer (Summary of Xah's proposals, as I see it)

[Jambunathan K]

martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:

>> Emacs has a notion of buffers that are *not* and *never will be (?)*
>> file-visiting.
>
> A user is always able to save _any_ buffer to a new file (if there's
> sufficient space) so the "*never will be (?)*" is not a valid notion.

What will be lost if Emacs forbids such a write? 

I can mark the buffer, switch to a file-visiting buffer and yank my
scratch contents there.