From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: 11298@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11298: Scratch buffer (Summary of Xah's proposals, as I see it)
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:56:49 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <81vckp9jue.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F96B5F3.5010304@swipnet.se> (Jan D.'s message of "Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:17:23 +0200")
"Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:
> Jambunathan K skrev 2012-04-24 14:20:
>>
>> Let me rephrase ideas in Xah's post -
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2012-04/msg00260.html.
>>
>> The recommendations involve,
>>
>> 1. "Menu->File->Visit New File" should be changed to "File->New". This
>> will create an 'Untitled N' buffer. This will mark the buffer as
>> `potentially-file-visiting'. Specifically it will not ask for the
>> name of the file.
>>
>> 2. Introduce "File->Save as" will mark a `potentially-file-visiting'
>> buffer as a `real-file-visiting-buffer'.
>>
>> 3. `potentially-file-visiting-buffer' should be queried for save on
>> exit.
>>
>
> Giving a file name at 1. allows Emacs to set major mode. If there is
> just "Untitled N", the user would have to manually set major mode for
> all new files. This is not userfriendly.
Does it matter what mode an empty or almost empty file is in?
If a user wants to exploit facilities offered by a major mode he has to
do a File->Save as. May be Emacs can query for the modes in which a
buffer has to be opened?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-24 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-21 15:55 bug#11298: 24.0.95; (WISH) Re-look scratch buffers Jambunathan K
2012-04-21 19:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-21 20:50 ` Jambunathan K
2012-04-22 14:11 ` Richard Stallman
2012-04-24 10:21 ` Jambunathan K
2012-04-23 19:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-23 20:09 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-04-23 20:11 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-24 1:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-24 13:42 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-24 10:57 ` bug#11298: Recipe to surface *code-conversion-work* buffer Jambunathan K
2012-04-24 11:39 ` martin rudalics
2012-04-24 12:54 ` Jambunathan K
2012-04-24 12:20 ` bug#11298: Scratch buffer (Summary of Xah's proposals, as I see it) Jambunathan K
2012-04-24 12:31 ` Jambunathan K
2012-04-24 13:48 ` martin rudalics
2012-04-24 16:33 ` Jambunathan K
2012-04-24 14:17 ` Jan D.
2012-04-24 16:26 ` Jambunathan K [this message]
2012-04-25 12:33 ` Jan D.
2012-04-24 18:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-15 5:06 ` bug#11298: 24.0.95; (WISH) Re-look scratch buffers Jambunathan K
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