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Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye]
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye] |
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Sat, 22 Jun 2002 16:12:09 -0400 |
> "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Maybe we could consider the "buffer with no file" in a similar way
> > as some GUI text processors treat (unsaved) new documents.
>
> Maybe we should do just that -- set the buffer-file-name to
> /nonexistingdrive/buffername, and set a new variable "buffer needs
> file", so that Emacs will ask about saving changes (because there is a
> file name associated with it), and then when the user hits C-x C-s,
> Emacs recognizes that the fil name is still unknown, and asks the user
> for it.
C-x C-s already does the right thing if buffer-file-name is nil.
I don't think we should actively support this "create buffer and then save"
model of creating files, because it suffers from the fact that it doesn't
know which major-mode to use for the buffer (plus other limitations
like the lack of auto-saving etc...).
Stefan
- address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Richard Stallman, 2002/06/20
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Robert J. Chassell, 2002/06/20
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Kim F. Storm, 2002/06/20
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Robert J. Chassell, 2002/06/21
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Stefan Monnier, 2002/06/22
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Alex Schroeder, 2002/06/22
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye],
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- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Eli Zaretskii, 2002/06/23
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Richard Stallman, 2002/06/24
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Richard Stallman, 2002/06/23
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Alex Schroeder, 2002/06/24
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Richard Stallman, 2002/06/24
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Alex Schroeder, 2002/06/24
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Miles Bader, 2002/06/24
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Alex Schroeder, 2002/06/24
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Miles Bader, 2002/06/24
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Francesco Potorti`, 2002/06/25