No. For many measurements you'll want to capture just one event. Like a UART message or certain signal. Usually this means pressing buttons on a generator, closing a switch, clicking a button in a GUI, etc. Having to also press a button on the oscilloscope to arm it just wastes time and adds extra room for error (or annoyance when putting the probe onto the test point also produces a trigger and you need to re-arm the scope once more). If you can let the oscilloscope stay in continuous trigger mode instead of single the scope does what it should do without needing manual arming and thus save time and work more comfortably.
But in that case you STILL have to reach up to the scope and press the STOP button!
No, because in case of a single event there will be nothing else to trigger on so pressing any buttons is not needed.
That's called setting your scope up to single shot trigger in the first place.
You said this and I'll repeat it:
If you can let the oscilloscope stay in continuous trigger mode instead of single the scope does what it should do without needing manual arming and thus save time and work more comfortably.Continuous trigger mode is either using Normal trigger mode or auto trigger mode.
Auto trigger mode will continuously trigger as you said, in which case you have to reach up to press STOP anyway, so you might as well press SINGLE instead and it will automatically trigger!
If you are talking normal trigger mode then that's NOT the "continuous trigger you speak of, and it's something you have to
set up before hand to capture those events, so you might as well single shot capture.
edit: An example: sometimes I have to test/adjust a product which produces a signal which lasts for several seconds. The oscilloscope is triggered by a 'start of test' signal. Having to press the 'single' button is an unnecessary step but on my DSO7104A I have to do it because otherwise the memory isn't deep enough to get all of the signal with enough detail. Well guess which scope didn't got used on the last batch!
If you are trying to capture an event that you want detail of then you set up the scope to trigger from that "start of test signal" and you capture the signal at the optimum timebase to get the best resolution. This applies to any scope.
The only time your argument makes sense is if you are using say a USB scope with infinite recording memory and you just hit STOP whenever you feel like it and then scroll back through the infinite record until you find your signal.
Sorry, but you argument still does not stand up.