<p>This has been asked before:</p>
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<p>I'm asking for it again, as I'm used to opening a new file, using it as a scratch pad, and then emptying and closing it. Geany won't let me do that, but pops up the file save dialogue instead.</p>
<p>Clearly there are other people out there who have a similar way of working, based on the previous issues about the same thing. One reason given (<a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load issue title" data-id="279492912" data-permission-text="Issue title is private" data-url="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1710" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/geany/geany/issues/1710/hovercard?comment_id=349499548&comment_type=issue_comment" href="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1710#issuecomment-349499548">#1710 (comment)</a>) for not implementing the change is that then one would not be able to open a new file and immediately close it, in order to save an empty named file on disk. I would argue that that is a much rarer use case than using a new file as a scratch pad, as was also previously argued.</p>
<p>Could this be implemented as an option, then? You could allow the "scratch pad users" to check a checkbox in the preferences labeled "Don't ask to save an empty and unsaved file".</p>

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