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24.0.95; (WISH) Re-look scratch buffers |
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Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:25:16 +0530 |
Feel free to close it or add to it.
An exact copy of my post in help-gnu-emacs.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2012-04/msg00332.html
Increasingly, I am feeling the need for multiple scratch buffers. By
default, my scratch buffer is in emacs-lisp mode. Some times, I switch
that scratch buffer to Org-mode when I create lists, tables or just
copy-paste some plain text from interwebs purely for reasons of
wrapping/filling.
1. Allow multiple scratch buffers one for each mode the user is
interested in. The defcustom can have a solitary text-mode entry. A
user wanting no scratch buffer at all can null-ify the mode list. A
user like me can add emacs-lisp-mode and org-mode to it.
2. Just in case I need a one-off scratch buffer, I need a quick way to
create it without having to think of (or type) out the full name Or
confirm my intentions (This latter part is *very* annoying).
C-u C-x b can offer to create *scratch-%s* (or %s-scratch) in
%s-mode.
3. I think it is not the scratch buffer that is idiosyncratic but the
/name/. Instead of using scratch one could call it say a notes
buffer or a temp buffer.
That said I am happy with the way things are. I know how to kill my
scratch buffer and I also know how to create multiple ones if needed. I
also know how to type 'y' if prompted :-).
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