Re: Emacs Improvement

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On 08 Jan 2004 17:45:57 +0100, Klaus Uhl <news@u-h-l.de> posted to
bug-gnu-emacs:
 > "Adam Morton" <adam@tux.appstate.edu> writes:
 >> Hello I'm a PHP programmer and an avid emacs user.  This is an issue that
 >> comes up every day with me and is just generally annoying.
 >> If you initially open a file in emacs (say test.php), C-x C-f to select
 >> another file (say test2.php), then when you've opened test2.php, you C-x
 >> C-f again and hit the up arrow to get the last file, emacs says "No
 >> preceding file found" or something similar, when it should allow you to
 >> hit the up arrow and get the original test.php file that was being edited
 >> first.
 > I hope I correctly understood what you did. You just opened two files
 > in emacs without closing the first of them explicitly.
 > Emacs does not automatically close buffers (i.e. files in your case)
 > when you open a different buffer (or file) but keeps those buffers
 > open but invisible. So you do not need to reopen the first file. You
 > simply can switch to this file by either using the "Buffers" menu or
 > by typing C-x b and supplying the name of the buffer you want to
 > switch to. If you type the TAB key instead you get a buffer which
 > shows all currently open buffers. 

Or maybe he just wants whatever file(s) he specified on the command
line to also be added to the minibuffer history. I don't see a good
reason for that, but it shouldn't be hard to do. (It's not a very
intuitive thing to do so it should probably not be made the default,
and probably not even a feature shipped with Emacs, but somebody could
easily hook up a snippet to put in your .emacs.)

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