Re: Generate a new buffer name

[Perry Smith]

On Nov 22, 2006, at 2:00 AM, mopi wrote:

Hello friends

I use a lot of different buffers during a normal day. Often I don't

care what their names are, actually I feel that being forced to name

them interrupts me. I'm perfectly happy with the default naming that

other text editors use (Untitled-1, Untitled-2 etc).

I'm trying to replicate this behaviour in emacs. So far I have placed

this in my .emacs:

(global-set-key [(control n)]

(lambda() (interactive)(switch-to-buffer(get-buffer-create

"Untitled1"))))

This gives me a new buffer named Untitled1. How can I make a variable

that increments so when I press C-n again I get a buffer named

Untitled2 and so on?

(defvar next-untitled-buffer-number 0

  "document variable here")

(global-set-key [(control n)]

(lambda()

  (interactive)

  (switch-to-buffer

   (get-buffer-create

    (format "Untitled-%d"

    (setq next-untitled-buffer-number

  (1+ next-untitled-buffer-number)))))))

Perry Smith ( pedz@easesoftware.com )

Ease Software, Inc. ( http://www.easesoftware.com )

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