Dear Kevin,

On 21.05.2010, at 03:56, Kevin Rodgers wrote:

> I can think of a couple nuisances:
> 
> * If the buffer gets saved to file "untitled", a subsequent invocation of emacs
> will visit that file, not an empty buffer.
> 
> * Changes to the buffer will be auto-saved to the #untitled# file, and a subsequent invocation of emacs will ask to recover the file (if the 2 invocations are concurrent, or if the first invocation exited uncleanly).


you are absolutely right about theses nuisances, thanks!

I have now tried:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-emacs-sources/2008-09/msg00016.html

site-start.el now ends with:

(require 'switch-to-new-buffer)
(switch-to-new-untitled-buffer)
;(org-mode)
(setq initial-buffer-choice 'none)

This works fine - except that when I uncomment the (org-mode) line, the "Untitled" buffer is set to Org-mode (as intended) but when I close Emacs it will no longer ask about saving data if the buffer was marked dirty. If the (org-mode) line is commented out, Emacs does ask about saving (if it is required). I also tried c-mode instead of Org-mode, same effect - so the problem is probably not related to Org-mode.

I guess changing the mode somehow overwrites the kill protections in switch-to-new-buffer?

Warm regards,
 Stefan
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