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From: | Jambunathan K |
Subject: | bug#11298: Scratch buffer (Summary of Xah's proposals, as I see it) |
Date: | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:56:49 +0530 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.95 (windows-nt) |
"Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes: > Jambunathan K skrev 2012-04-24 14:20: >> >> 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. >> > > Giving a file name at 1. allows Emacs to set major mode. If there is > just "Untitled N", the user would have to manually set major mode for > all new files. This is not userfriendly. Does it matter what mode an empty or almost empty file is in? If a user wants to exploit facilities offered by a major mode he has to do a File->Save as. May be Emacs can query for the modes in which a buffer has to be opened?
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