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24.0.95; (WISH) Re-look scratch buffers

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From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 11298 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11298: Scratch buffer (Summary of Xah's proposals, as I see it)
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:17:23 +0200

Jambunathan K skrev 2012-04-24 14:20:
>
> Let me rephrase ideas in Xah's post -
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2012-04/msg00260.html.
>
> The recommendations involve,
>
> 1. "Menu->File->Visit New File" should be changed to "File->New".  This
>     will create an 'Untitled N' buffer.  This will mark the buffer as
>     `potentially-file-visiting'.  Specifically it will not ask for the
>     name of the file.
>
> 2. Introduce "File->Save as" will mark a `potentially-file-visiting'
>     buffer as a `real-file-visiting-buffer'.
>
> 3. `potentially-file-visiting-buffer' should be queried for save on
>      exit.
>

Giving a file name at 1. allows Emacs to set major mode.  If there is 
just "Untitled N", the user would have to manually set major mode for 
all new files.  This is not userfriendly.

	Jan D.

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