From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Zachary Kanfer <zkanfer@gmail.com>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, visuweshm@gmail.com, 56311@debbugs.gnu.org,
spwhitton@spwhitton.name
Subject: bug#56311: [PATCH] new function: delete-visited-file
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2022 08:57:58 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831qv5fk7t.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFXT+RP0F8epDO3f9Dv84RSLe8BBTGR4okrxegvsTtakYxUsWQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Zachary Kanfer on Thu, 30 Jun 2022 23:29:36 -0400)
> From: Zachary Kanfer <zkanfer@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 23:29:36 -0400
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
> 56311@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> It's interesting to see commentary about how one shouldn't want to kill buffers. There is a lot of functionality
> revolving around killing buffers.
Examples of such functionality? I'm not sure I understand what you
have in mind here.
> > ...each time I see suggestions for features to kill unused buffers or
> > see people who are worried about such buffers, I raise a brow: in
> > Emacs, we generally don't care about that (because it does no harm to
> > have unused buffers)...
>
> I use desktop-mode. So I currently have 267 buffers open in my Emacs. Perhaps you might think I'm "doing
> it wrong",
Why would I think so? In the session in which I'm writing this, I
have 287 buffers. Having around 300 buffers in my sessions is quite
normal, and I don't consider such numbers excessive.
> I find that the more buffers I have open, the longer it takes to
> find a given buffer.
"Find" in what way? Please tell more about the problems you have in
sessions with many buffers, because I'm not aware of any significant
problems.
> The more open
> buffers I have open, the greater the chance I'll accidently switch
> to the wrong one.
Again, please tell more details. How does the number of buffers
contribute to the chance of selecting a wrong one? For that matter,
which commands do you use to switch between buffers?
> > And since deleting the visited file is currently very easy, as Eli
> > pointed out:
> >
> > > M-x delete-file RET M-n RET
> >
> > I don't think this would be a command that people would use a lot.
>
> Personally, I never want to delete a file and keep the buffer around. So I have replaced *all* my usages of
> `delete-file` with this new one.
That's fine: Emacs is great because it lets you do that to fit your
personal needs. No one here is saying that it's wrong for you to do
that; the discussion is whether doing so is TRT for many/most Emacs
users (which could have different workflows).
> There are many ways to work with Emacs -- many workflows I don't know why this one is considered
> wrong.
Sure. But there's no reason for Emacs to support all of the OOTB.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-01 5:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-30 4:26 bug#56311: [PATCH] new function: delete-visited-file Zachary Kanfer
2022-06-30 5:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-30 5:49 ` Sean Whitton
2022-06-30 5:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-30 6:20 ` Visuwesh
2022-06-30 10:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-30 16:29 ` Sean Whitton
2022-07-01 3:29 ` Zachary Kanfer
2022-07-01 5:57 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-07-03 5:06 ` Zachary Kanfer
2022-07-03 6:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-02 11:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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