From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Fogel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Scratch buffer annoyance Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:24:39 -0700 Message-ID: <87lkdhqp94.fsf@red-bean.com> References: <877ipev1iv.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: Karl Fogel NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184538290 21878 80.91.229.12 (15 Jul 2007 22:24:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:24:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Leo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 16 00:24:48 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 1IACWG-0006LO-G1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:24:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IACWF-0006ws-Ua for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:24:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IACWC-0006wd-W0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:24:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IACW9-0006se-OY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:24:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IACW9-0006sP-LK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:24:41 -0400 Original-Received: from sanpietro.red-bean.com ([66.146.193.61]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IACW9-0001cN-D5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:24:41 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43795) by sanpietro.red-bean.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IACW8-0007wc-5E; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:24:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Leo's message of "Sun\, 15 Jul 2007 22\:37\:33 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:74851 Archived-At: Leo writes: > This new behavior is just annoying. > > Everybody knows what *scratch* means. Why would someone want to save > things in scratch? Or why would they put important things in *scratch* > in the first place? Then the new behavior is not the right solution to a real problem. People clearly do not know what "*scratch*" means, which isn't surprising, considering that it behaves differently from virtually every other text editing interface out there (they'll ask you if you want to save unsaved work before exiting).