The save-some-buffers command queries the user as to which buffers should be saved. However, if the buffer has a file-name, it uses the file-name in the dialogue instead of the buffer name. If the buffer name happens to differ from the buffer's file-name, this is confusing to the users. (It happens quite frequently in VM, which uses obscure file-names for the caches of POP/IMAP folders, but the buffer names are recognizable.) The attached patch (on Emacs-23 head) modifies the dialogue so that file-names are used in the dialogue only when they coincide with the buffer names. Otherwise, buffer names are used preferentially. Cheers, Uday In GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2011-03-10 on 3249CTO Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.5) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/imagesupport/include' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: ENU value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: cp1252 default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: VM Presentation Minor modes in effect: diff-auto-refine-mode: t savehist-mode: t which-function-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t use-hard-newlines: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t line-number-mode: t visual-line-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: y C-x C-f C-g C-x o C-x C-f C-g C-x o C-x C-f - d e v / b z r . l o SPC C-s f i l e s . e l C-a C-s 2 3 . 3 C-s C-s C-r C-r C-s C-s C-s C-r C-r C-r C-r C-r C-r C-r C-r C-r C-a C-x C-f N E SPC W SPC e t c / N E SPC C-l C-x k C-x o C-x b f i l e s . SPC C-g C-x o C-x C-r C-x , C-x o C-x b f i l e s . SPC C-x o M-x e d i f f - b u f n n n C-n C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-x o C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-n C-f C-f C-f C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-a C-SPC C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n M-x u n t a b i f y q y C-x o M-x e d i f f - b u f n n n b q y C-x o C-x C-s C-a M-x r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u SPC Recent messages: Processing difference regions ... done Refining difference region 1 ... Refining difference region 2 ... Refining difference region 3 ... Saving old diff region #3 of buffer A. To recover, type `ra' [2 times] Only white-space differences in region 3 Quit this Ediff session? (y or n) Saving file d:/gnu/emacs-23-dev/lisp/files.el... 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