From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: *scratch* buffer documentation
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 04:27:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d0cbepcu.fsf@telefonica.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: D88DF0A4-06CC-4AC3-8ADC-AFDB452E526D@traduction-libre.org
Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org>
writes:
>> I Think that you are missing one important thing: users are generally
>> not idiots.
>
> It is not about being idiots or not. But about how self-contained
> should the documentation be.
>
> If you show me the place in the documentation where the default
> behavior is described then I'll need to worry about why I did not find
> it.
19.4 Killing Buffers
‘C-x k’ (‘kill-buffer’) kills one buffer, [...] If you ask to kill
a file-visiting buffer that is modified, then you must confirm with
‘yes’ before the buffer is killed.
A corollary is that other buffers may not trigger the confirmation.
>> Emacs does have its dark corners, but I don't think saving buffers
>
> Indeed, saving buffers is not an issue. It is killing buffers that is.
IMO the implication that Emacs only cares about the persistence of
changes made to file-visiting buffers is clear. If the user, somehow,
expects that Emacs will warn on quitting about changes to *scratch*, he
will swiftly learn what "This buffer is for text that is not saved"
means :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-26 3:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-24 23:58 *scratch* buffer documentation Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-25 1:24 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-12-25 1:44 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-25 14:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-26 0:54 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-26 2:29 ` arthur miller
2019-12-26 3:00 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-26 3:27 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2019-12-26 5:19 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-26 5:20 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-26 16:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-26 17:15 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-26 17:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-12-26 18:14 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-26 20:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-27 1:03 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-27 8:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-27 9:12 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-27 9:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-27 9:44 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-27 11:31 ` VanL
2019-12-27 14:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-27 18:24 ` John Yates
2019-12-27 18:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-27 16:12 ` Drew Adams
2019-12-27 17:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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