From: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org>
To: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: *scratch* buffer documentation
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 10:03:53 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E8AF6700-FFC5-4A15-8923-3B7115981B27@traduction-libre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837e2irfzc.fsf@gnu.org>
> On Dec 27, 2019, at 5:25, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>
>> This behavior is specific to Emacs and its buffers and should be properly documented.
>
> It _is_ documented. The disagreement between us is _where_ should it
> be documented.
Eli,
I am starting to see where the disagreement is.
> What you seem to be asking is unreasonable: to have everything related
> to buffers in one section.
What about a 1-word addition? The File Handling section has the word "permanent" in it:
======================================================================
18 File Handling
****************
The operating system stores data permanently in named “files”, so most
of the text you edit with Emacs comes from a file and is ultimately
stored in a file.
======================================================================
What about adding a word that indicates the temporary nature of buffers as a qualifier to "object" in Using Multiple Buffers?
That way we have a clear opposition early in the description of the two objects and that would help discovery/understanding the other traits of buffers.
There are a number of words that fit the description. The antonym of "permanent" seems to be "temporary" and synonyms of "temporaty" are "transient," "ephemeral," "transitory," "provisory" and a few others. I like "provisory" because it implies a condition to change the status of the buffer.
So what about something like that:
======================================================================
19 Using Multiple Buffers
*************************
The text you are editing in Emacs resides in a provisory object called a
“Buffer”.
======================================================================
When I read "provisory" I have alarm bells ringing and I want to know more, so I check the rest of the documentation and indeed, I find the kill command and that confirms that buffers are indeed provisory and need to be saved to a *permanent* file to have their contents archived.
Would that be an agreeable proposal?
Jean-Christophe Helary
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-27 1:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-24 23:58 *scratch* buffer documentation Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-25 1:24 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-12-25 1:44 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-25 14:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-26 0:54 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-26 2:29 ` arthur miller
2019-12-26 3:00 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-26 3:27 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-12-26 5:19 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-26 5:20 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-26 16:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-26 17:15 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-26 17:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-12-26 18:14 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-26 20:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-27 1:03 ` Jean-Christophe Helary [this message]
2019-12-27 8:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-27 9:12 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-27 9:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-27 9:44 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-27 11:31 ` VanL
2019-12-27 14:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-27 18:24 ` John Yates
2019-12-27 18:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-27 16:12 ` Drew Adams
2019-12-27 17:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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