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Subject: Re: initial scratch message
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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).

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.

That seems reasonable.

