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Re: *scratch* buffer documentation
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Jean-Christophe Helary |
Subject: |
Re: *scratch* buffer documentation |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Dec 2019 14:19:28 +0900 |
Óscar,
Please read my reply to Eli.
JC
> On Dec 26, 2019, at 12:27, Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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 :-)
>
>
Jean-Christophe Helary
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- *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
- Re: *scratch* buffer documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/12/27