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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Visit New File menu item
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 05:37:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bn6henlr.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56E5F9C6.40305@alice.it> (message from Angelo Graziosi on Mon, 14 Mar 2016 00:37:42 +0100)

> From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>
> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 00:37:42 +0100
> 
> My opinion is that "New File" is wrong if linked to the sequence "C-x C-f".
> 
> Usually, I use "C-x C-f" both for loading ("visiting") an existing file 
> in Emacs both to create a new file (not existing!).
> 
> Notice that other applications which have "New File" mean really a *new* 
> (i.e. creating) file. Usually they have "C-N" for "New File" and "C-O" 
> for "Open File". So using "New File" in Emacs seems misleading, unless 
> you use a different key sequence for New/Open File.
> 
> Really I would remove the "Open File" item and would leave "Visit File" 
> (without New), with the obvious key sequence "C-x C-f".

We had that originally, but then the menu item was split in 2 (in
Emacs 23): Open File insists on the file to exist, while Visit New
File doesn't.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-14  3:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-13 23:37 Visit New File menu item Angelo Graziosi
2016-03-14  0:11 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-14  3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-03-11 16:58 Phillip Lord
2016-03-11 17:02 ` Joost Kremers
2016-03-11 21:30   ` John Wiegley
2016-03-11 21:36     ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-11 21:50     ` Drew Adams
2016-03-11 22:18       ` Phillip Lord
2016-03-11 22:16     ` Phillip Lord
2016-03-11 22:22       ` Mathias Dahl
2016-03-12  6:59       ` Yuri Khan
2016-03-12 19:26     ` Richard Stallman
2016-03-12 21:23       ` John Wiegley
2016-03-12 21:37         ` Phillip Lord
2016-03-12 21:41           ` John Wiegley
2016-03-12 23:35             ` Phillip Lord
2016-03-13  3:42             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-13  3:56               ` John Wiegley
2016-03-13  4:00                 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-13 16:03                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-13 17:02                     ` John Wiegley
2016-03-13 19:56                       ` Phillip Lord
2016-03-13 20:23                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-13 20:38                         ` Nicolas Semrau
2016-03-13  3:43           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-11 22:22 ` Nicolas Semrau

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