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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to visit a file and kill the current buffer?
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 21:01:26 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wp56touh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <82eece41-ee93-636c-1917-39462ce86106@yandex.com> (message from Mario Castelán Castro on Sun, 10 Sep 2017 12:13:51 -0500)

> From: Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com>
> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 12:13:51 -0500
> 
> Very often I have a frame displaying a file, but I no longer need to
> have that file open.

Emacs doesn't keep the file open after visiting it.  The file's
contents is read into a buffer, and the file is closed.  So you
shouldn't worry about leaving the file open.

> I wish to instead open another file. What I do
> currently is to do C-x C-f and visit the new file, then kill the now
> unneeded buffer, but it is annoying to have to do this in 2 steps.

You don't need to kill the buffer.

> Moreover, I tend to forget the later step and then I accumulate a lot of
> “garbage” buffers that are visiting files that I am no longer interested in.

Activate midnight-mode, and all those buffers will be automatically
killed for you.

IOW, I think you are looking for a solution to a problem that doesn't
really exists in Emacs.  It only exists in those "simple GUI editors".



  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-10 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-10 17:13 How to visit a file and kill the current buffer? Mario Castelán Castro
2017-09-10 17:24 ` tomas
2017-09-10 17:48   ` Mario Castelán Castro
2017-09-10 18:37     ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-10 19:14       ` tomas
     [not found]       ` <mailman.265.1505070877.14750.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-09-10 22:13         ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-10 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-09-10 18:18   ` Drew Adams
2017-09-10 18:16 ` Drew Adams
     [not found] <mailman.245.1505063646.14750.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-09-10 18:15 ` Marco Wahl
2017-09-10 18:27   ` Mario Castelán Castro

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