From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A wish, a plea Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:24:28 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4679F561.4030600@hacksaw.org> <49750.128.165.123.18.1182451810.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <49854.128.165.123.18.1182453151.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182529524 15580 80.91.229.12 (22 Jun 2007 16:25:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:25:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: hacksaw@hacksaw.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: herring@lanl.gov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 22 18:25:22 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I1lwn-0006Hr-6I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:25:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I1lwm-00044t-IZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:25:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I1lvz-0003mk-Il for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:24:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I1lvx-0003lv-R6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:24:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I1lvx-0003lp-L9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:24:29 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I1lvx-00032g-DI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:24:29 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I1lvw-0007Ct-FL; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:24:28 -0400 In-reply-to: <49854.128.165.123.18.1182453151.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (herring@lanl.gov) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:73632 Archived-At: I do not like the idea of asking for a file name when the user enters a character in *scratch*. However, to make a warning if the user puts more than a little text in *scratch* and does not evaluate any of it as Lisp expressions would be better. The warning could pop up in a window and say, "Don't use *scratch* to enter text you want to save in a file. If you have already started doing that, save it in a file now with C-x C-w FILENAME RET."