From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Making new files Date: Sun, 05 May 2024 23:12:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4HK_I0Mv8CyU7VO6ja06MTTe-F6SzrEwBOpB_DA05NJYCvTMDyGdCtEuslRObI9WErzhS6K8Ri3O5kxpHh7fnW0IERy9ZIa5L3tavY6y97Q=@protonmail.com> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2777"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:dBCVnxqCZLOrDcjZNKjagjfe31c= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 06 05:13:15 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1s3omx-0000ch-7W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 06 May 2024 05:13:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1s3omY-0004Ys-4g; Sun, 05 May 2024 23:12:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1s3omW-0004Yh-Eq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 May 2024 23:12:48 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1s3omU-0004R2-VF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 May 2024 23:12:48 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1s3omR-000AZK-Qq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 May 2024 05:12:43 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:146579 Archived-At: > Well not really "give me a new file", but "save me a new file". Like "Save As", > although "Save As" requires you to have an existing buffer. 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). AFAIK this is extremely rarely needed so it's unlikely Emacs will get a standard command for that, let alone an entry in the menu bar. But you can make your own, like (defun my-save-new-file (file) "Save a new file." (interactive "fNew file name: ") (write-region "" nil file)) - Stefan