Re: Making new files

[Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>]

On Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 at 2:44 AM, Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 06 May 2024 13:34:37 +0000 Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 at 1:16 AM, Po Lu luangruo@yahoo.com wrote:
> > 
> > > Stefan Monnier monnier@iro.umontreal.ca writes:
> > > 
> > > > > > Then, no we don't have a command specifically dedicated to creating new
> > > > > > empty files (contrary to the command line which has `touch` for that).
> > > > > 
> > > > > There's `dired-create-empty-file'...
> > > > 
> > > > Well, I'll be damned!
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks, Steve!
> > > 
> > > There was always "M-! touch", as well.
> > 
> > A great thing to have is the ability to allow people to introduce their
> > own menu bar items in a convenient way. So then I can call the command
> > you wrote for me. That would assist a lot of people.
> 
> 
> It's pretty convenient with `easy-menu-define': (defun heime-new-file () "Open a new empty file using` dired-create-empty-file'."
> (interactive)
> (require 'dired-aux)
> (call-interactively #'dired-create-empty-file))
> 
> (easy-menu-define heime-menu global-map
> "Heime's very own menu."
> '("Heime"
> ("File"
> ["New File" heime-new-file t])))
> 
> Steve Berman


Why don't you allow others to add to the existing menus rather than 
our own separate menus.