On 12/07/09 14:22, Toni Ruottu wrote: > > 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
It would be easy to add some command in Vim to store nameless buffers under a random filename, but how would you find them back? If you come a week later and find the files cf7g9k5x.txt, vfg5h8qw.txt and ytdf56vq.txt, how would you remember what you'd used them for (other than by looking inside them, of course)? I'd say it's much better to save the files -- if you really need to save them -- under a descriptive name, and _only you_ can give that name, be it "AuntMary.txt" or "resume.html" or whatever. If it's a first draft for something that's going to be sent or published, save it under the name it's gonna get when finished; and if it's going to be used for a few days or weeks then scrapped, at least give it a name which tells you what there is in it. As for hitting :w again at a beep without reading the message, that's something you should never do. If there's a beep and a message, or even just a red message, then something went wrong, and the first thing you should do then is find out what went wrong and see what you should do about it. Maybe it's a page of notes which you don't need any longer, and then the "right" thing to do is to hit ":q!" or ":enew!" on that window to quit it without saving. If Vim saved every buffer that you forgot to close when you didn't need them anymore, imagine the clutter on your disk! Best regards, Tony. -- Fats Loves Madelyn --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
