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[Luca <address@hidden>]

Javier Arantegui wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm preparing an screencast for beginners, especially for users without 
> previous experience on emacs.
>
> I know what a buffer solution or a buffer tank are, but I''m not sure if I 
> know exactly what a buffer is in TeXmacs/Emacs. Is it correct to say that 
> buffers are documents in *macs-ese?
>
> One confusing thing about TeXmacs interface is --when you are going to open a 
> new file-- you can use File -> Load... (shortcut F2) or the icon bar, click 
> on the 'Load a file' button -> Load buffer... (F2). What am I loading? A 
> document? A buffer? A file? I think that this mixed semantics is a little bit 
> confusing for the new users used to office suites.
>
> Do you think that it's important to mantain the 'buffer' concept? Maybe it 
> could be substituted by 'document' or 'file'.
>
> Javier
>
>
>  
well as long as I understand a buffer is primary in memory (RAm) or some 
temporary file that either get saved  (to a regular file )or get erased 
after the buffer is closed.
Wheter a file is on the disk.
So basically a buffer should be something as a temporary file, but this 
is also misleading.
It can also (for example in emacs) contain a shell output that will 
never become a file.
It is just some memory space you use to display the output of some program.
So a buffer is not necesarily a temporal document.
But it can be it if you save it to a document...
A little bit confusing I guess...
Am I right?
Luca