From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [jidanni@deadspam.com: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye] Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 12:12:44 -0600 (MDT) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200206231812.g5NICiS24452@aztec.santafe.edu> References: <200206201435.g5KEZLF18772@aztec.santafe.edu> <5xu1nxh6o7.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200206221720.g5MHKLj16237@rum.cs.yale.edu> <877kkrw1pz.fsf@emacswiki.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1024856145 29002 127.0.0.1 (23 Jun 2002 18:15:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 18:15:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17MBtp-0007Xf-00 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 20:15:45 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17MBub-0002ST-00 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 20:16:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17MBtt-0006NK-00; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:15:49 -0400 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17MBqv-0006Au-00; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:12:46 -0400 Original-Received: from aztec.santafe.edu (aztec [192.12.12.49]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5NIClC28505; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 12:12:47 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by aztec.santafe.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) id g5NICiS24452; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 12:12:44 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: aztec.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@aztec using -f Original-To: alex@emacswiki.org In-Reply-To: <877kkrw1pz.fsf@emacswiki.org> (message from Alex Schroeder on Sat, 22 Jun 2002 21:30:16 +0200) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:5120 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:5120 and set a new variable "buffer needs file", so that Emacs will ask about saving changes (because there is a file name associated with it), and then when the user hits C-x C-s, Emacs recognizes that the fil name is still unknown, and asks the user for it. C-x C-s already handles this, but maybe we ought to make C-x s do something for them. Maybe we should do just that -- set the buffer-file-name to /nonexistingdrive/buffername, What is the point in that? Why not just leave it nil?