Make scratch buffer major mode configurable

[TheBB]

Fix #690.

[StreakyCobra]

spacemacs/layers/+distribution/spacemacs-base/funcs.el

Line 867 in de17125

(switch-to-buffer (get-buffer-create "*scratch*")))

[TheBB]

Thanks. Better now?

[TheBB]

Persp-mode won't let me delete the scratch buffer to check...

[StreakyCobra]

Tested by excluding persp-mode. It works 👍

[choppsv1]

Would be nice to get this merged as it's hard to work around it not being there. :)

[choppsv1]

FWIW I think making this text mode by default is misguided. I tested load times and didn't see much if any difference with lisp interaction mode. Additionally from the emacs manual:

When Emacs starts up, it contains a buffer named scratch, which is provided for evaluating Emacs Lisp expressions interactively. Its major mode is Lisp Interaction mode. You can also enable Lisp Interaction mode by typing M-x lisp-interaction-mode.

[syl20bnr]

@choppsv1 We cannot guess the major mode for the user so we make it as generic as possible by default, I believe this is the saner default.

@TheBB Thank you ! Released in 0.105.7 👍

[choppsv1]

Sylvain Benner notifications@github.com writes:

@choppsv1 We cannot guess the major mode for the user so we make as generic as possible by default, I believe this is the saner default.

But, you don't have to guess at what to set it to! It's documented in
the manual as "the lisp-interaction-buffer". What we're doing here is
changing it so it violates the documentation. Why?

[syl20bnr]

I don't agree with reducing the scratch buffer to lisp interaction by
default, it is even elisp interaction buffer in this case. The term
scratch is too general and the usage of Emacs too wide to reduce it to
elisp.

But all this discussion diverged from the main reason why it is text-mode
by default in Spacemacs, this is to avoid loading too much stuff at startup.

Le lundi 11 janvier 2016, Christian Hopps notifications@github.com a
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Sylvain Benner <notifications@github.com
javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','notifications@github.com');> writes:

@choppsv1 We cannot guess the major mode for the user so we make as
generic as possible by default, I believe this is the saner default.

But, you don't have to guess at what to set it to! It's documented in
the manual as "the lisp-interaction-buffer". What we're doing here is
changing it so it violates the documentation. Why?

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