From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get rid of *GNU Emacs* buffer on start-up? Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:35:51 -0600 Message-ID: References: <873ajzwoqu.fsf@kobe.laptop> <823901dd-c54c-4e3b-b6ad-512d52724a46@z11g2000prl.googlegroups.com> <87ljxoffs6.fsf@atthis.clsnet.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1222241792 20520 80.91.229.12 (24 Sep 2008 07:36:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:36:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 24 09:37:29 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KiOwA-0001j9-Au for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:37:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46232 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KiOv7-0006lW-9G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:36:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KiOup-0006kc-8r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:36:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KiOum-0006k7-N6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:36:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51758 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KiOum-0006k4-F3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:36:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:20999) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KiOul-0007jm-H6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:36:00 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KiOuh-00063d-5W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:35:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KiOud-00075U-Ot for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:35:52 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.161.145.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:35:51 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:35:51 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:57983 Archived-At: Kevin Rodgers wrote: > Xah Lee wrote: >> In summary: the problem with find-file is that it promps user to enter >> a file name upfront. The problem with switch-to-buffer is that it >> doesn't promp to save when user closes it. In both, the functions are >> simply not designed for creating a new temp buffer. > > Wow, if you had put 1% of the effort into coding that you put into this > thread, you could have come up with something like this: > > (defun switch-to-new-buffer () > "Switch to a new *scratch* buffer." > (interactive) > (switch-to-buffer (generate-new-buffer "*scratch*")) > (setq switch-to-new-buffer t)) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Nikolaj Schumacher's recent message prompted me to check that little hack, and I see that it's got a typo. It should be: (defun switch-to-new-buffer () "Switch to a new *scratch* buffer." (interactive) (switch-to-buffer (generate-new-buffer "*scratch*")) (setq buffer-offer-save t)) You might like (auto-save-mode 1) in there as well. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA