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bug#11298: Scratch buffer (Summary of Xah's proposals, as I see it)
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Jambunathan K |
Subject: |
bug#11298: Scratch buffer (Summary of Xah's proposals, as I see it) |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:50:12 +0530 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.95 (windows-nt) |
Let me rephrase ideas in Xah's post -
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2012-04/msg00260.html.
The recommendations involve,
1. "Menu->File->Visit New File" should be changed to "File->New". This
will create an 'Untitled N' buffer. This will mark the buffer as
`potentially-file-visiting'. Specifically it will not ask for the
name of the file.
2. Introduce "File->Save as" will mark a `potentially-file-visiting'
buffer as a `real-file-visiting-buffer'.
3. `potentially-file-visiting-buffer' should be queried for save on
exit.
Speaking of scratch buffer,
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Emacs has a notion of buffers that are *not* and *never will be (?)*
file-visiting. Their only purpose is to do THROWAWAY work ("use and
throw") with an understanding that Emacs will promise /not/ to annoy the
user with "Should I save this THROWAWAY work? It seems valuable to me
even though you think otherwise".
(Hmm, I like the way Emacs gives primacy to throwaway work.)
1. It is useful to have scratch buffers. Though most users will have no
use for it.
2. There could be mutliple user-created scratch buffers and they could
be created in multiple programming lang modes, depending on user's
needs.
I think,
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If Emacs *deduces* file-visitedness based on the name of the buffer, I
think much of the problem could be elegantly dealt with.
1. C-x b => Create "Untitled N". It is potentially-file-visiting. Such
buffers always queried on exit.
2. C-u C-x b => Creates "*throway-%s*". Note that the default offered
to the user names the buffer specially with leading and trailing
asterisks, These are non-file-visiting buffers.
- bug#11298: 24.0.95; (WISH) Re-look scratch buffers, (continued)
- bug#11298: 24.0.95; (WISH) Re-look scratch buffers, Stefan Monnier, 2012/04/23
- bug#11298: 24.0.95; (WISH) Re-look scratch buffers, Lennart Borgman, 2012/04/23
- bug#11298: 24.0.95; (WISH) Re-look scratch buffers, Drew Adams, 2012/04/23
- bug#11298: 24.0.95; (WISH) Re-look scratch buffers, Stefan Monnier, 2012/04/23
- bug#11298: 24.0.95; (WISH) Re-look scratch buffers, Drew Adams, 2012/04/24
bug#11298: Recipe to surface *code-conversion-work* buffer, Jambunathan K, 2012/04/24
bug#11298: Scratch buffer (Summary of Xah's proposals, as I see it),
Jambunathan K <=
bug#11298: Scratch buffer (Summary of Xah's proposals, as I see it), Stefan Monnier, 2012/04/24