GNU bug report logs - #55257
29.0.50; New command `scratch-buffer' inconsistent with startup

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: David Ponce <da_vid <at> orange.fr>

Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 08:33:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.0.50

Done: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #29 received at 55257-submitter <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
Cc: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>, 55257-submitter <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: master f2d2fe6fc8: server-execute: Initialize the *scratch* buffer
Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 21:24:02 +0200

Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name> writes:

> It gets called in places like server.el, though.  And I can imagine
> wanting to use it in third party code as a better version of
> (get-buffer-create "*scratch"*).  So it seems to me not to be internal.

scratch-buffer isn't meant as an internal function, but a command users
can use to recreate the *scratch* buffer.  (It's a question that comes
up from users once in a while.)

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