# emacs stuff
*Entered: in emacs on Gemini PDA*
*Date: 20231226*
## how I learned to love *scratch*
For a while I was using a dashboard like in *doom emacs*.
Then I switched to using an org file with links. The thing
that sucked about that is my muscle memory kept wanting to
press <tab> to go through the links. This just triggers
folding and irritation. During this time I killed the
*scratch buffer* explicitly, and saw no use for it. I have
since changed my mind about the scratch buffer.
In my init.el, I construct my initial scratch buffer message
as a list of elisp commands. I have a mapping to S-<right>
to evaluate elisp. Simple and my mind does not try to make
my fingers hit <tab> or any other keys that are not called
for.
