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Re: A wish, a plea
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Karl Fogel |
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Re: A wish, a plea |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:36:59 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Sascha Wilde <address@hidden> writes:
> I'm actually using *scratch* quite often, as a scratch pad for stuff I
> don't want to save (and don't want to be asked, if I want to save them
> on exit), as well as for ad-hoc elisp stuff.
Unlike most users, you know how to change any default anyway.
> I like the feature of having *scratch* at hand from the beginning in
> every emacs session, and I would miss it...
We don't need to get rid of the *scratch* buffer. (I wasn't actually
suggesting that, although I guess I wouldn't object to it either.)
We could retain it, but make one of these changes as well:
a) the initial selected buffer be a Fundamental Mode or Text Mode
buffer ("scratch", "notes", whatever), with buffer-offer-save
turned on by default.
-or-
b) if we just want to retain *scratch* as-is, that we at least
default to buffer-offer-save in that buffer, in stock Emacs.
Do you object to both (a) and (b)?
I prefer (a), my reasoning being that *scratch* is only useful to
people who know a bit of Elisp, and those people can easily figure out
how to change any default we set anyway.
We can keep the *scratch* buffer, if we must, but are you really
saying that it should also be the default selected buffer, and it
should not offer to save on exit by default?
I mean, step back for a moment: we have here a text editor that when
you open it, gives you a scratch space that's not really set up for
editing text, and that won't offer to save when you exit.
How can that be the best thing for most users? :-)
-Karl
- Re: A wish, a plea, (continued)
- Re: A wish, a plea, Karl Fogel, 2007/06/21
- Re: A wish, a plea, Jason Rumney, 2007/06/21
- Re: A wish, a plea, Karl Fogel, 2007/06/21
- Re: A wish, a plea, Nic James Ferrier, 2007/06/21
- Re: A wish, a plea, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/22
- Re: A wish, a plea, Karl Fogel, 2007/06/22
- Re: A wish, a plea, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/22
Re: A wish, a plea, Sascha Wilde, 2007/06/21
- Re: A wish, a plea, Nic James Ferrier, 2007/06/21
- Re: A wish, a plea,
Karl Fogel <=
- Re: A wish, a plea, Jason Rumney, 2007/06/21
- RE: A wish, a plea, Drew Adams, 2007/06/21
- Re: A wish, a plea, csant, 2007/06/22
- Re: A wish, a plea, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/22
- RE: A wish, a plea, Drew Adams, 2007/06/22
- Re: A wish, a plea, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/22
- Re: A wish, a plea, Juri Linkov, 2007/06/25
- Re: A wish, a plea, David Kastrup, 2007/06/25
- RE: A wish, a plea, Drew Adams, 2007/06/25
RE: A wish, a plea, Drew Adams, 2007/06/25