From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
23151@debbugs.gnu.org, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#23151: 25.1.50; Emacs should have a convenient command for saving unchanged buffers
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 17:40:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bn5w6kk9.fsf@wanadoo.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mvmh9fo6m71.fsf@hawking.suse.de> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Wed, 30 Mar 2016 17:05:06 +0200")
Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
> Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:
>
>> a safe method of forcing Emacs to save the file without altering the
>> buffer's content.
>
> Two methods were already presented in this thread.
Someone mentioned C-u C-x C-w, which shows a prompt where you are
supposed to write the file name of the buffer you are visiting. If you
type the wrong file name, hopefully you will notice the mistake before
creating too much damage.
This is not a safe method.
Other mentioned C-u M-~ (which actually should be C-u M-~ C-x C-s).
Apart from being a long finger-twisting sequence, M-~ is impossible to
type on some keyboards where ~ is written as AltGr-~, or difficult in
some input methods, where ~ is a dead key.
This is not convenient.
The char&del C-x C-s method is popular because Emacs does not offer
something better out of the box. It is about time that Emacs provides an
intuitive (as per Emacs standards), convenient and safe method for doing
that task.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-30 15:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-29 15:36 bug#23151: 25.1.50; Emacs should have a convenient command for saving unchanged buffers Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-29 16:30 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.8597.1459265831.843.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-03-29 19:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-29 23:07 ` Johan Bockgård
2016-03-29 23:41 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-30 12:09 ` Richard Stallman
2016-03-30 14:19 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-03-30 15:05 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-03-30 15:40 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2016-03-30 16:04 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-03-30 16:28 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-03-30 17:02 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-30 16:12 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-31 7:54 ` Richard Stallman
2016-03-31 16:11 ` John Wiegley
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