Re: File menu changes (suggestions)

[Miles Bader]

On 6/29/05, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
> - make sure C-x C-s prompts for a file name.

This seems to work already if you save a buffer with no associated filename.

> Of course the other option of prompting for a file name before creating the
> new buffer solves all the above problems (along with the others that have to
> do with the choice of major mode, ...), which is why I'm in favor of that
> one, even if it's a bit less CUA-ish.

It's also often very annoying to be forced to pick a filename upfront...

Granted that one can "rename" the file by using save-as before ever
using save, but it's step one has to remember to do (and one I often
forget).

I think the changes you note would actually be very good to have
around regardless of the menu issue actually -- I often want to create
a file which may or may not be temporary, which I want to be
auto-saved, but which I don't know the name of yet.  My current
solution is to visit "/tmp/,blah" or whatever, and then use C-x C-w to
save it when I decide upon a name, but it'd be cool if I could set
things up so that there was some way of identifying which
non-file-associated buffers should be auto-saved.

-Miles
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