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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
Cc: wilde@sha-bang.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, hacksaw@hacksaw.org
Subject: Re: A wish, a plea
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:37:17 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uwsxwp3lu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877ipwqtg9.fsf@red-bean.com> (message from Karl Fogel on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:33:42 -0700)

> From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:33:42 -0700
> Cc: Sascha Wilde <wilde@sha-bang.de>, Hacksaw <hacksaw@hacksaw.org>,
> 	emacs-devel@gnu.org, Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
> 
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> > As for the default buffer to use: how about using a buffer *unnamed*
> > that will be in text-mode, that will ask for being saved when one
> > kills Emacs, and that will ask for a filename when being saved (the
> > file name becoming then the base for the buffer name)?
> >
> > Retain *scratch* including the initial message.
> 
> This all sounds great to me!

It sounds awful to me.  It reminds me Notepad and Word with their
pesky UNNAMED and DOCUMENT1 defaults.

Did anyone in this longish thread suggest to simply turn on auto-save
in *scratch*, like we do in *mail* buffers?  If not, would that solve
the OP's problem without any significant nasty side effects?

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-22 12:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 118+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-21  3:49 A wish, a plea Hacksaw
2007-06-21 18:50 ` Davis Herring
2007-06-21 18:57   ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-21 19:12     ` Davis Herring
2007-06-22 16:24       ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-21 18:55 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-06-22  3:59   ` Karl Fogel
2007-06-21 19:07     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-06-21 19:17     ` Nic James Ferrier
2007-06-21 21:53       ` Frank Schmitt
2007-06-22  0:36       ` Taylor Venable
2007-06-21 19:43     ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-22  3:57 ` Karl Fogel
2007-06-21 20:56   ` Jason Rumney
2007-06-22  6:27     ` Karl Fogel
2007-06-21 21:36       ` Nic James Ferrier
2007-06-22 16:24       ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-22 17:27         ` Karl Fogel
2007-06-22 21:53           ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-21 21:19   ` Sascha Wilde
2007-06-21 21:26     ` Nic James Ferrier
2007-06-22  6:36     ` Karl Fogel
2007-06-21 22:08       ` Jason Rumney
2007-06-21 23:04         ` Drew Adams
2007-06-22  6:51           ` csant
2007-06-22 16:24           ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-22 17:12             ` Drew Adams
2007-06-22 21:53               ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-25 20:47               ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-25 21:05                 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-25 21:30                   ` Drew Adams
2007-06-25 21:30                 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-22  8:03         ` Sascha Wilde
2007-06-22  8:11           ` David Kastrup
2007-06-22  8:21             ` Nic James Ferrier
2007-06-22  8:33             ` Karl Fogel
2007-06-22 12:37               ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-06-22 12:43                 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-22 12:51                   ` Jason Rumney
2007-06-22 13:08                     ` David Kastrup
2007-06-22 13:16                       ` David Kastrup
2007-06-22 12:57                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-22 18:46                 ` Glenn Morris
2007-06-22 19:50                   ` Karl Fogel
2007-06-22 19:58                     ` Glenn Morris
2007-06-22 20:22                       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-06-22 10:23             ` Initial splash screen (was Re: A wish, a plea) Stephen Berman
2007-06-22 11:43               ` Initial splash screen David Kastrup
2007-06-22 14:19                 ` Stephen Berman
2007-06-22 20:09                   ` David Kastrup
2007-06-22 23:07                     ` Stephen Berman
2007-06-22 21:53               ` Initial splash screen (was Re: A wish, a plea) Richard Stallman
2007-06-22 22:11                 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-06-23 13:19                   ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-23 14:57                     ` Initial splash screen David Kastrup
2007-06-22 22:46                 ` Initial splash screen (was Re: A wish, a plea) Stephen Berman
2007-06-23  6:42                   ` Initial splash screen David Kastrup
2007-06-23 10:43                     ` Stephen Berman
2007-06-23 18:27                     ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-23 19:05                       ` David Kastrup
2007-06-25 13:19                         ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-25 13:34                           ` Mathias Dahl
2007-06-25 13:38                             ` David Kastrup
2007-06-22 18:51             ` A wish, a plea Richard Stallman
2007-06-22 20:05               ` David Kastrup
2007-06-23 13:19                 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-23 14:45                   ` David Kastrup
2007-06-23 19:39                     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-24 14:41                     ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-22 19:02             ` Ryan Yeske
2007-06-28  1:04             ` Davis Herring
2007-06-22 16:24         ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-22 16:36           ` Jason Rumney
2007-06-22 21:53             ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-23  6:21               ` David Kastrup
2007-06-23 18:27                 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-23 18:58                   ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2007-06-23 19:07                   ` David Kastrup
2007-06-24 14:41                     ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-23 19:47                   ` Hacksaw
2007-06-24 15:13                     ` Sascha Wilde
2007-06-24 17:18                       ` Hacksaw
2007-06-24 23:46                         ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-25  8:07                           ` Sascha Wilde
2007-06-21 23:18       ` Andreas Schwab
2007-06-22  7:57       ` Sascha Wilde
2007-06-22  8:01         ` Karl Fogel
2007-06-22  8:16         ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-22  8:32           ` David Kastrup
2007-06-22  9:06             ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-22  9:20               ` David Kastrup
2007-06-22  9:55                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-22  8:01 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-06-22  8:15   ` Jason Rumney
2007-06-22  8:19   ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-22 11:58     ` David House
2007-06-22  8:20   ` Nic James Ferrier
2007-06-22 13:19     ` Drew Adams
2007-06-22 13:33       ` Nic James Ferrier
2007-06-22 14:23       ` Kim F. Storm
2007-06-22 14:34         ` Nic James Ferrier
2007-06-22 15:10           ` David House
2007-06-22 15:31         ` Drew Adams
2007-06-23 23:48       ` Johan Bockgård
2007-06-24  0:06         ` Drew Adams
2007-06-24  0:15           ` David Kastrup
2007-06-24  1:17             ` Drew Adams
2007-06-24 10:15               ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-24 14:05                 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-24 14:22                   ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-24 14:28                     ` David Kastrup
2007-06-25 20:47         ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-25 21:28           ` Drew Adams
2007-06-22  8:41   ` Glyn Millington
2007-06-22 11:54     ` Nic James Ferrier
2007-06-22 12:33       ` Glyn Millington
2007-06-22  9:03   ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-22 14:02   ` Denis Bueno

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