hello I use vim for all kinds of different work. At times I'm using it to edit source code or other files, where it is really clear what the filenames are and where they are going. At some other times I use vim for storing a few random notes, or to edit some text that is eventually going to a web form or instant messenger message. With the latter cases I'd really like to be able to save the file just by saying :w without providing a filename.
And this is something I naturally do. No one told me to do it, or said it would be ok to do. Ok or not it really gets in the way of my editing that I find myself hitting :w multiple times with always getting the complaint about file name not being defined. Then I might spend a few seconds thinking about a filename or directory for the information, just to notice that I don't have a good plan for storing such files in a file system hierarchy. Then I forget about it and after a few seconds of more editing I, by instinct, hit :w again a few times wondering why it doesn't work. Until I read the message and spend some more time thinking about the filename. I'm suggesting that vim could generate filenames for the files which do not already have them. Just store all such files somewhere under ~/.vim/drafts/. I'd like to know, if others have the same problem. I can't help myself thinking that fixing this is more important than concentrating on many advanced features that vim already has. cheers --Toni --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
