| Re: How to get rid of *GNU Emacs* buffer on start-up? |
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Group: gnu.emacs.help · Group Profile
Author: Cor GestCor Gest Date: Sep 19, 2008 06:04
Some entity, AKA Xah Lee xahlee.org>,
wrote this mindboggling stuff:
(selectively-snipped-or-not-p)
> Here's a better phrasing:
>
> • Emacs does not provide a user level function to create a new buffer.
> It has “Open file...” (a wrapper to the find-file command), which
> immediately prompt user for a full file path. This is annoying. Modern
> apps's New File command actually just create a new untitled file
> without prompting, and only when user save it it prompt a file name.
> If user closes it, it prompts for saving.
Emacs _never_ 'opens' files, it merely visits them and copies its
content into a (named)-buffer.
After you are done messing with that buffer you order emacs to write the
content of the buffer to file-name to relace it and saving
the unaltered-visited-file. (you _do_ use versioning, don't you ?)
If you cannot understand this type of editing you really should
not use emacs at all and use something else.
Oh, BTW emacs really is ment for people who know what they want to do
and those people do not create untitled files nor do they not know
where they are messing around in any filesystem, otherwise they should
not be allowed access to the system in the first place.
Cor
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