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.
next prev 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]
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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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