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: (kill-buffer "*scratch*") Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:38:11 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <4152EDE3.8010702@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1095953952 8437 80.91.229.6 (23 Sep 2004 15:39:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:39:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 23 17:39:06 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CAVgY-0007Wq-00 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:39:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CAVma-0002sw-4n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:45:20 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 4CbFYmXulAWQ8uRtprAaPQnOkOxbD58aICJJvz8q2jlUW1Qzk= 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:125476 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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:20830 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20830 Frederic Motte wrote: > The other night, I was not able to sleep, thinking about a game world. > So I jumped out of my bed to write it down. Once I was happy of my > work, I went back in bed feeling good. > > Today, I wanted to read it again, but impossible to found it back. > I think I wrote it in the scratch buffer and closed emacs without > saving it. > Of course, emacs didn't asked me if I would like to save it. But it did tell you: ;; This buffer is for notes you don't want to save, and for Lisp evaluation. ;; If you want to create a file, visit that file with C-x C-f, ;; then enter the text in that file's own buffer. Try adding this to your .emacs file: (save-excursion (set-buffer "*scratch*") (setq buffer-offer-save t)) -- Kevin Rodgers