I was doing some key mapping in .emacs and instead of saving the file,
restarting Emacs, and testing the new assignment I was doing M-x eval
region on changed areas of .emacs Somehow all (or many) keychords
started acting strangely, e.g. C-x 1 would open subr.el in a new buffer
instead of showing current buffer alone in frame, even cursor movement
keys did something else. I killed .emacs buffer without saving (losing
changes) and then exited Emacs. On restarting everything looks and works
normally exept that *scratch* is empty (three commented lines are
missing) and it is in Fundamental mode instead of Lisp Interaction. Can
I get the old *scratch* buffer back? How?