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From: "Charles Hines" <chuck_hines@VNET.IBM.COM>
To: Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com>
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Subject: Re: start up buffer (was Re: 19.15 b4)
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>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Rafferty <craffert@spspme.ml.com> writes:

....
Colin> I think that we should actually consider having a menu entry under
Colin> "File" called "New Buffer" that creates an empty buffer called
Colin> "*Unnamed*" that is not associated with a file, but has checkpoint
Colin> capabilities.

I snarfed the following idea from Doug Keller to basically do that:

(defun ckh-new-buffer ()
  "Creates a new buffer called 'New'"
  (interactive)
  (switch-to-buffer (generate-new-buffer "New")))

Chuck

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IBM Logic Synthesis Developer [BooleDozer (TM)]
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