From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: get rid of leftover auto save #files# Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 09:42:37 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <4089396D.9090400@yahoo.com> References: <44vfjrdhft.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1082735212 17862 80.91.224.253 (23 Apr 2004 15:46:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 15:46:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 23 17:46:45 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BH2sv-0008MX-00 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 17:46:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BH2sp-0008Mn-5g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:46:31 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1082734952 10703277 I 170.207.51.80 ([82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:122625 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:17913 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17913 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Kevin Dziulko writes: >>When I decide to abandon changes made to a buffer. I exit emacs >>without saving the file. It asks "Modified buffers exist; exit >>anyway?" I answer yes. Now I have an auto save #file# file there. >>How can I not get these files in this scenario? I want to keep auto >>save on because of it's many benefits. > > I usually mark the file as unmodified before killing it. > [M-~ in the default configuration] If I understand correctly, killing modified a buffer prompts you with "Buffer file modified; kill anyway (yes or no)?", and if you answer "yes" the auto-save file is automatically deleted. So there should be no need to `M-~' before `C-x k'. But Lowell is presumably exiting emacs with `C-x C-c' (save-buffers-kill-emacs), which prompts you with "Modified buffers exist; exit anyway?" and does not delete the auto-save files. It runs save-some-buffers first, though, which gives the user the chance to type `C-r M-~ q' for each modified buffer -- does that cause the auto-save files to be deleted? Ideally, save-some-buffers would give the user the chance to discard the changes to a buffer (or even to all buffers)... -- Kevin Rodgers