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From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [External] : Make new buffer from menu
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2022 12:12:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwva643xfgp.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: cc4xcz2OIOJpws6H1AcwIFPpjdxKX3LKbN_40xY-F_VIy3xb_JpCHt_wy59L5CLF0Oebdxp32Pim1nJ1JemvT9LihRWzAfj5lKDqQE37pMA=@protonmail.com

> Anyway, when making new buffer, Emacs should just make a temporary
> one, then the user can save it if one wants.

To me this reads a bit like "the sky should be blue".

IOW, what makes you think this isn't exactly how Emacs already behaves?

E.g.:  C-x C-f /some/non/existing/file RET will create a new empty buffer
which will be written to `/some/non/existing/file` if/when you decide to
save it.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-12-04 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-03  3:58 Make new buffer from menu Heime
2022-12-03 17:20 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-12-03 18:43   ` Heime
2022-12-03 19:15     ` tomas
2022-12-03 20:27       ` Heime
2022-12-04  6:20         ` tomas
2022-12-04  6:48         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-04  7:20           ` Heime
2022-12-04 14:20             ` Jean Louis
2022-12-04 17:12             ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2022-12-04 12:13         ` Jean Louis
2022-12-04 11:55     ` Dr Rainer Woitok
2022-12-04 12:32       ` Heime
2022-12-04 12:39         ` Jean Louis
2022-12-04 12:36     ` Jean Louis
2022-12-04 12:03 ` Jean Louis

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