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Re: [External] : Make new buffer from menu
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Jean Louis |
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Re: [External] : Make new buffer from menu |
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Sun, 4 Dec 2022 17:20:21 +0300 |
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Mutt/2.2.9+50 (c79959e) (2022-11-21) |
* Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> [2022-12-04 10:21]:
> Anyway, when making new buffer, Emacs should just make a temporary
> one, then the user can save it if one wants.
You can do that:
Do this:
C-x b "ENTER NAME OF YOUR BUFFER" like anything "nfj"
then do this to save:
C-x C-w
The temporary buffer in Emacs Lisp sense, it has different
meaning and, I am not even sure if you could access it,
(with-temp-buffer
(current-buffer)) ➜ #<killed buffer>
Can I switch to it?
(with-temp-buffer
(switch-to-buffer (current-buffer))) ➜ #<killed buffer>
Let me see?
(with-temp-buffer
(insert "Hello")
(switch-to-buffer (current-buffer))
(sleep-for 10)) ➜ nil
And I did not see "Hello", so those are really temporary buffers.
Emacs is not one making decisions like human user, as human user
can also decide about "temporary file", but for a file system it
is just file, so for Emacs too, any buffer is just buffer.
Me as user I call some buffers temporary as that is designation I
keep to know that I do not really need to save them. THough I
did couple them with file names automatically, in case that I
wish to quickly save them.
--
Jean
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- Re: [External] : Make new buffer from menu, Heime, 2022/12/03
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