Subject: Re: bug#4100: 23.1; Minor bugs in Emacs 23

From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:57:57 +0300

> Please change the "Visit New File" entry to a "New File" entry
> defined as follows:
> (define-key menu-bar-file-menu [new-file]
>   '(menu-item "New File"
>               (lambda ()
>                 (interactive)
>                 (switch-to-buffer (generate-new-buffer "*untitled*")))
>               :enable (menu-bar-non-minibuffer-window-p)
>               :help "Create a new buffer"))
>
> This corresponds to what just about every other editor on the planet
> does -- prompt for a filename when the file is first SAVED.

This makes sense since this new *untitled* buffer is just like the
*scratch* buffer but you need also add (setq buffer-offer-save t)
and (auto-save-mode 1) to *untitled* so exiting will ask a question
about saving it to a file.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/