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Re: Making new files


From: Heime
Subject: Re: Making new files
Date: Sat, 04 May 2024 22:37:50 +0000

On Saturday, May 4th, 2024 at 7:41 PM, Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 4 May 2024 at 07:16, Po Lu luangruo@yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> > > I always struggle in emacs because there is no way to make a new file
> > > from the "File" menu. Can "New File" be added please.
> > 
> > "Visit New File."
> 
> 
> That’s not exactly what Users New To Emacs™ expect from a File → New command.
> 
> The standard behavior of File → New is to create a blank buffer, no
> questions asked. The decision as to the name and location of the file
> is deferred to the first explicit save. Emacs, on the other hand, asks
> for the name up front.
> 
> @Heime: Consider this a productivity shortcut. By giving a name to
> your file, you let Emacs automatically choose the appropriate major
> mode, which, in turn, gives you the right syntax highlighting and
> various mode-specific key bindings. With an unnamed file, you’d have
> to choose the mode manually.

I have no complaints about naming the file as it is.  But the choice of
words is very bad.  One cannot visit something that does not exist as in
"Visit New File".  The associated popup menu has in its Title Bar the 
phrase "Find File".  It is those two things that I am against continuing 
with.  They do not help at all.





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