Re-open *scratch* buffer in Emacs?

Question

If I accidentally closed the scratch buffer in Emacs, how do I create a new scratch buffer?

Answer 1

There are a whole bunch of tips on this EmacsWiki page.

Here's the first one:

A very simple function to recreate the scratch buffer:

(defun create-scratch-buffer nil
   "create a scratch buffer"
   (interactive)
   (switch-to-buffer (get-buffer-create "*scratch*"))
   (lisp-interaction-mode))