Re: Generate a new buffer name

[Mathias Dahl]

"mopi" <52hands@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello friends
>
> I use a lot of different buffers during a normal day. Often I don't
> care what their names are, actually I feel that being forced to name
> them interrupts me. I'm perfectly happy with the default naming that
> other text editors use (Untitled-1, Untitled-2 etc).
>
> I'm trying to replicate this behaviour in emacs. So far I have placed
> this in my .emacs:
>
> (global-set-key [(control n)]
>               (lambda() (interactive)(switch-to-buffer(get-buffer-create
> "Untitled1"))))
>
> This gives me a new buffer named Untitled1. How can I make a variable
> that increments so when I press C-n again I get a buffer named
> Untitled2 and so on?

Maybe you could use `make-temp-name'?

Example:

 (make-temp-name "Untitled-")

  => "Untitled-3744WiN"

It is certainly possible to write a more advanced function that looks
for old "Untitled" buffers and increases the suffix with 1, but the
above might work for you.