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Re: *scratch* buffer documentation
From: |
Óscar Fuentes |
Subject: |
Re: *scratch* buffer documentation |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Dec 2019 04:27:18 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Jean-Christophe Helary <address@hidden>
writes:
>> I Think that you are missing one important thing: users are generally
>> not idiots.
>
> It is not about being idiots or not. But about how self-contained
> should the documentation be.
>
> If you show me the place in the documentation where the default
> behavior is described then I'll need to worry about why I did not find
> it.
19.4 Killing Buffers
‘C-x k’ (‘kill-buffer’) kills one buffer, [...] If you ask to kill
a file-visiting buffer that is modified, then you must confirm with
‘yes’ before the buffer is killed.
A corollary is that other buffers may not trigger the confirmation.
>> Emacs does have its dark corners, but I don't think saving buffers
>
> Indeed, saving buffers is not an issue. It is killing buffers that is.
IMO the implication that Emacs only cares about the persistence of
changes made to file-visiting buffers is clear. If the user, somehow,
expects that Emacs will warn on quitting about changes to *scratch*, he
will swiftly learn what "This buffer is for text that is not saved"
means :-)
- *scratch* buffer documentation, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2019/12/24
- Re: *scratch* buffer documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/12/26
- Re: *scratch* buffer documentation, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2019/12/26
- Re: *scratch* buffer documentation, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/12/26
- Re: *scratch* buffer documentation, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2019/12/26
- Re: *scratch* buffer documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/12/26
- Re: *scratch* buffer documentation, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2019/12/26
- Re: *scratch* buffer documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/12/27
- Re: *scratch* buffer documentation, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2019/12/27