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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: initial scratch message
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>>>>> "sb" == SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:

sb> Gary D Foster <Gary.Foster@Corp.Sun.COM> writes:
>> I feel that (setq initial-scratch-message nil) should work to set the
>> scratch buffer message to nothing.  However, setting this causes an
>> error plonk the first time the buffer is created (I can provide a
>> backtrace if necessary, although it's pretty easy to determine why).

sb> It wouldn't be very interesting.  The beep is caused by `(insert nil)'.


>> Should this behavior be changed to allow setting it to nil?  I have it 
>> set to "" now, which doesn't generate the error.

sb> That seems reasonable.

(when (stringp initial-scratch-message)
   (insert initial-scratch-message))

