From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Cc: 11298@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11298: Scratch buffer (Summary of Xah's proposals, as I see it)
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:33:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F97EF33.4090309@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81vckp9jue.fsf@gmail.com>
Jambunathan K skrev 2012-04-24 18:26:
> "Jan D."<jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:
>>
>> Giving a file name at 1. allows Emacs to set major mode. If there is
>> just "Untitled N", the user would have to manually set major mode for
>> all new files. This is not userfriendly.
>
> Does it matter what mode an empty or almost empty file is in?
Well, an empty file will be filled with something, be it Java, C, C++,
Javascript, XML, SQL, Lisp or whatever. I seldom create empty files for
random notes.
>
> If a user wants to exploit facilities offered by a major mode he has to
> do a File->Save as. May be Emacs can query for the modes in which a
> buffer has to be opened?
Even Eclipse and Netbeans have the ability to specify file type when
starting a new file. It sounds to me that what you really want is
"Visit New Unknown File" or something like it.
Jan D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-25 12:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-21 15:55 bug#11298: 24.0.95; (WISH) Re-look scratch buffers Jambunathan K
2012-04-21 19:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-21 20:50 ` Jambunathan K
2012-04-22 14:11 ` Richard Stallman
2012-04-24 10:21 ` Jambunathan K
2012-04-23 19:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-23 20:09 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-04-23 20:11 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-24 1:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-24 13:42 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-24 10:57 ` bug#11298: Recipe to surface *code-conversion-work* buffer Jambunathan K
2012-04-24 11:39 ` martin rudalics
2012-04-24 12:54 ` Jambunathan K
2012-04-24 12:20 ` bug#11298: Scratch buffer (Summary of Xah's proposals, as I see it) Jambunathan K
2012-04-24 12:31 ` Jambunathan K
2012-04-24 13:48 ` martin rudalics
2012-04-24 16:33 ` Jambunathan K
2012-04-24 14:17 ` Jan D.
2012-04-24 16:26 ` Jambunathan K
2012-04-25 12:33 ` Jan D. [this message]
2012-04-24 18:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-15 5:06 ` bug#11298: 24.0.95; (WISH) Re-look scratch buffers Jambunathan K
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