From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hacksaw Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: A wish, a plea Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:49:53 -0400 Message-ID: <4679F561.4030600@hacksaw.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.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 1182451528 29765 80.91.229.12 (21 Jun 2007 18:45:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:45:28 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 21 20:45:26 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 1I1Ren-0003U6-4y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:45:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I1Rem-0004kQ-HU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:45:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I1DgE-0008Td-Me for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:49:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I1DgC-0008T5-ST for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:49:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I1DgC-0008T2-Nd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:49:56 -0400 Original-Received: from hacksaw.org ([66.92.70.107]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I1DgC-0005DK-Cb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:49:56 -0400 Original-Received: from inchworm.local ([10.0.0.243]) by hacksaw.org (8.13.6/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l5L3nrLC029667 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:49:54 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Macintosh/20070604) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:45:21 -0400 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:73541 Archived-At: Maybe this is the wrong place for this, but I'm kind of upset. See, I use Emacs to write (duh!), and I do a lot of it. If I get an idea, I write it down quickly, so I can develop it at my leisure. Mostly I write fiction. This is important becuase if I'm writing C or Python, I think about the file name first. When I'm writing fiction, I'm thinking about the story. So I started writing, and I wrote for quite a while, it was really flowing well, and I thought, hey, I should save, because I don't want to lose this, but in my reverie, I hit the ^X^C first. And I was writing in the scratch buffer. I bet if we took a poll, the number of emacs users who actually use the scratch buffer for it's intended usage is very, very low. Most either find a file, or open a new one. But I wasn't in programming mode, so I was in scratch, and lost everything I was writing, because scratch isn't backed up by anything. I'd be happy with a lisp snippet that made it so that scratch never showed up again. I can make a lisp-interactive mode file if I want it. In fact, when I do anything with lisp, I make a test file, and turn it to lisp interactive. But my real wish is that *scratch* would just go away. IMHO, it's usefulness is limited. And the chances that something important gets lost because of a careless keystroke is too high. Please help a poor writer?