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Re: How to get rid of *GNU Emacs* buffer on start-up?
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Xah Lee |
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Re: How to get rid of *GNU Emacs* buffer on start-up? |
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Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:02:11 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Sep 19, 9:13 am, Nikolaj Schumacher <m...@nschum.de> wrote:
> We just call them (scratch) buffers. They provide all the
> same featuresXah's"untitled files" do. Really, the only differences are
> nomenclature, the way of creating them and the fact that one exists by
> default.
That's not the only differences. I have given detail on other
differences.
Quote from my article:
http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization_scratch_buffer.html
«
• There is no easy, intuitive way to create multiple scratch buffers.
(it is done by using the switch-to-buffer command (C-x b) and give
name that is not one of existing buffers.)
• Emacs does not provide a user level function to create a new buffer.
It has menu “File‣Open file...” (a wrapper to the find-file command),
which immediately prompt user for a full file path. This is annoying.
Modern apps's New File command actually just create a new untitled
file without prompting, and only when user save it it prompt a file
name. If user closes it, it prompts for saving.
»
and quote from my post here:
I don't agree that emacs does provide a user-level function for
creating a new buffer. The 2 practical methods to create a new buffer,
by find-file or switch-to-buffer, are both not designed to create a
new buffer for temp use, and each has serious problems in my opinion.
• There is no easy, intuitive way to create multiple scratch buffers.
(it is done by using the switch-to-buffer command (C-x b) and give
name that is not one of existing buffers.)
• Emacs does not provide a user level function to create a new
buffer. It has “Open file...” (a wrapper to the find-file command),
which immediately prompt user for a full file path. This is annoying.
Modern apps's New File command actually just create a new untitled
file without prompting, and only when user save it it prompt a file
name. If user closes it, it prompts for saving.
In summary: the problem with find-file is that it promps user to enter
a file name upfront. The problem with switch-to-buffer is that it
doesn't promp to save when user closes it. In both, the functions are
simply not designed for creating a new temp buffer.
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
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