From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Generate a new buffer name Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:40:47 -0700 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <1164182420.160993.146620@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164213791 10026 80.91.229.2 (22 Nov 2006 16:43:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:43:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 22 17:43:10 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmvBR-0001ng-D9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:42:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmvBR-00007x-0q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:42:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GmvB4-0008V2-PA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:42:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GmvB3-0008TV-SY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:42:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmvB3-0008TF-HB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:42:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GmvB2-00013g-S0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:42:25 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GmvAg-0001cM-TR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:42:02 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:42:02 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:42:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) In-Reply-To: <1164182420.160993.146620@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38900 Archived-At: mopi wrote: > Hello friends > > I use a lot of different buffers during a normal day. Often I don't > care what their names are, actually I feel that being forced to name > them interrupts me. I'm perfectly happy with the default naming that > other text editors use (Untitled-1, Untitled-2 etc). > > I'm trying to replicate this behaviour in emacs. So far I have placed > this in my .emacs: > > (global-set-key [(control n)] > (lambda() (interactive)(switch-to-buffer(get-buffer-create > "Untitled1")))) > > This gives me a new buffer named Untitled1. How can I make a variable > that increments so when I press C-n again I get a buffer named > Untitled2 and so on? (switch-to-buffer (generate-new-buffer "Untitled")) -- Kevin