From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#11298: 24.0.95; (WISH) Re-look scratch buffers Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:53:34 -0400 Message-ID: References: <81397xm657.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335038078 2500 80.91.229.3 (21 Apr 2012 19:54:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:54:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 11298@debbugs.gnu.org To: Jambunathan K Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 21 21:54:36 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SLgOC-0005gC-AE for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:54:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53275 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLgOB-0007Yd-M8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:54:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35738) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLgO9-0007YI-07 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:54:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLgO7-000435-AJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:54:32 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:45031) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLgO7-00042x-75 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:54:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SLgOb-0000mg-VM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:55:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:55:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 11298 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 11298-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B11298.13350380542955 (code B ref 11298); Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:55:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 11298) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 Apr 2012 19:54:14 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46065 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SLgNq-0000lc-C9 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:54:14 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.143.162]:23064) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SLgNp-0000lQ-2h for 11298@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:54:13 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjEKACxOgk/O+K5t/2dsb2JhbABDtheCDAOBDIEIggkBAQQBViMFCws0EhQYDSSIHAW2MothhHkEpEWBXYMD X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,391,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="175821695" Original-Received: from 206-248-174-109.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.174.109]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 21 Apr 2012 15:53:35 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 1C65D58D2D; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:53:34 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <81397xm657.fsf@gmail.com> (Jambunathan K.'s message of "Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:25:16 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.94 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:59375 Archived-At: > 1. Allow multiple scratch buffers one for each mode the user is > interested in. We do not disallow that, so could you be more specific in what you mean by that? > The defcustom can have a solitary text-mode entry. Which defcustom? > C-u C-x b can offer to create *scratch-%s* (or %s-scratch) in > %s-mode. Interesting idea. It might not even need a C-u: we could simply make C-x b query the user for a major-mode when the buffer doesn't exist yet (and we could try and take a hint from the buffer name to guess a good default: e.g. looking for a major-mode name in the buffer name, or matching the buffer name against auto-mode-alist). > 3. I think it is not the scratch buffer that is idiosyncratic but the > /name/. Instead of using scratch one could call it say a notes > buffer or a temp buffer. I'm not married to "*scratch*", but "notes" sounds like something you'd want to save, and "temp" sounds like something that might disappear without warning. Stefan