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RE: [External] : Make new buffer from menu


From: Heime
Subject: RE: [External] : Make new buffer from menu
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2022 12:32:57 +0000

------- Original Message -------
On Sunday, December 4th, 2022 at 11:55 AM, Dr Rainer Woitok 
<rainer.woitok@gmail.com> wrote:


> Heime,
> 
> On Saturday, 2022-12-03 18:43:40 +0000, you wrote:
> 
> > ...
> > The problem with Unsolicited Advice is that it is customarily useless.
> 
> 
> Most probably this is as well an "Unsolicited Advice" according to your
> above definition. But anyway:
> 
> > ...
> > Using Emacs is like working on ice. It is extremely dangerous.
> 
> 
> According to my personal experience it's not more dangerous than driv-
> ing a car. Your milage may vary. But in any case you are not at all
> required to use an editor you classify as dangerous. There are plenty
> of others around. I personally would never drive a Porsche, because I
> simply do not want to drive that fast, thus making the Porsches's horse-
> powers a total waste ...
> 
> And to stretch this example just a bit more: you do not learn driving a
> car by perpetually asking questions, you learn it by supervised doing.
> Here the supervision is necessary due to the real danger of driving on
> public roads. But making blunders using Emacs is not dangerous at all,
> provided you don't try something out using valuable data. Use a backup
> copy, a test file or the "scratch" buffer to try your ideas. But in
> any case remember what the acronym "RTFM" means before you send occa-
> sionally very imprecise questions, assumptions or allegations to hun-
> dreds of mailboxes. Get yourself acquainted with Emacs' documentation
> (it isn't that bad after a while, or at least I've seen plenty of worse
> product manuals).

So tell me about this.  Can I make a new untitled buffer that I can later 
save if I want to, from the File Menu, in the Menu Bar ?



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