scratch.el

Scratch buffers in Emacs. A “scratch” buffer is a temporary buffer used for holding copy-paste content, for writing quick notes, for writing and evaluating some piece of code, or other. This package helps dealing whith such common tasks and also (optionally) to persist scratch buffers for later sessions.

Usage

This package is not on Melpa so can installed via git-based package manager like straight.el:

(straight-use-package '(scratch-el :type git
                                   :host github
                                   :repo "tomrss/scratch.el"))

;; automatically persist scratch buffers
(with-eval-after-load 'scratch
  (scratch-persist-mode +1))

Commands

• scratch-new. Create new scratch buffer, major mode will be prompted.
• scratch-titled. Create new scratch buffer with a filename title, major mode will be decided from filename (via auto-mode-alist).
• scratch-open. Open previously persisted scratch buffer.

No function is bound to any key, you can do it yourself.

Customization

See the scratch customization group.