From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: erase-buffer (was: with-output-to-temp-buffer) Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 18:34:19 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040512223419.GC30731@fencepost> References: <200405061310.WAA22378@etlken.m17n.org> <200405101213.VAA04125@etlken.m17n.org> <87ekpsuzqa.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <877jvjnl4g.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <200405112306.IAA09060@etlken.m17n.org> <20040511232651.GB5298@fencepost> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084401603 26142 80.91.224.253 (12 May 2004 22:40:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 22:40:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, handa@m17n.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu May 13 00:39:56 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BO2OK-0003N1-00 for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 00:39:56 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BO2OJ-0001bz-00 for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 00:39:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BO2Mj-0004Vi-Lf for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 12 May 2004 18:38:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BO2L8-0003UY-Fn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 May 2004 18:36:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BO2KW-00039P-6U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 May 2004 18:36:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BO2J2-0002eu-Bh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 May 2004 18:34:28 -0400 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BO2It-0000Mq-Cb; Wed, 12 May 2004 18:34:19 -0400 Original-To: Richard Stallman Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:23282 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23282 On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 03:42:01PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > I think for user-use, it might make more sense to define some other > command that acts more normally (i.e., obeys buffer narrowing, etc.). > Perhaps call it `delete-whole-buffer' (analogous to > `mark-whole-buffer'). > > That would be several more characters to type, > given the existing completion alternatives, > and I see no need for the change. Is this really a command you (1) use often, but (2) don't have bound anywhere??? Is there some practical justification for the odd way it works? -Miles -- Suburbia: where they tear out the trees and then name streets after them.