[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Scratch buffer annoyance
From: |
Tassilo Horn |
Subject: |
Re: Scratch buffer annoyance |
Date: |
Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:59:38 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:
Hi Alfred,
> What's wrong with
>
> - automatically saving *scratch* in a place other than ~/ (where it
> is out of the way) via auto-save and before exiting Emacs,
> without any user interaction
>
> As other have pointed out, this won't work when you have multiple
> emacses running.
There are other modes facing the same problem. For example
`desktop-save-mode' uses a lock file and asks the user what to do.
And when multy-tty gets merged there are no good reasons to start
multiple emacsen anyway.
> - automatically restoring *scratch* from that file upon startup
> (i.e. making it persistent)
>
> This defeats the whole concept of *scratch* IMHO.
I don't think so. If you scratch up some notes on a paper they will
still be there when you return to the office. (Well, maybe that depends
on the charwomen.)
And the effort to delete the contents of a buffer is not really a
matter.
> - not offering to save it anywhere else (even though users may to C-x
> C-w and save it, thereby converting it to a normal, non-persistent
> buffer, and creating an empty *scratch* buffer automatically).
>
> This would preserve the equivalence to a real-life scratch paper
> that one keeps on one's desk, which will not magically disappear
> overnight, but which may be filed somewhere else when needed.
>
> It would be unobtrusive and solve the original problem.
>
> I disagree, and strongly. It defeats the whole concept of a scratch
> buffer.
Well, I would like that new behavior. So users could use *scratch* to
quickly write down some todos that need to be done the next day.
Bye,
Tassilo
--
Chuck Norris can skeletize a cow in two minutes.
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, (continued)
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, David Kastrup, 2007/07/17
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, David Reitter, 2007/07/17
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/18
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, David Kastrup, 2007/07/18
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/19
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2007/07/17
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, David Kastrup, 2007/07/17
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Mathias Dahl, 2007/07/17
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Jason Rumney, 2007/07/17
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Johan Bockgård, 2007/07/17
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance,
Tassilo Horn <=
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Andreas Schwab, 2007/07/17
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Jan Djärv, 2007/07/18
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Tassilo Horn, 2007/07/18
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Jan Djärv, 2007/07/18
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/18
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/18
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/18
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Chong Yidong, 2007/07/17
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/18
- RE: Scratch buffer annoyance, Drew Adams, 2007/07/17