From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: make emacs ask to save modified non-file buffers Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:48:29 +0200 Message-ID: <485EF2DD.9050508@gmail.com> References: <635b5b5f-398f-44a0-8bf2-873a050696bb@v1g2000pra.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214182142 16626 80.91.229.12 (23 Jun 2008 00:49:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:49:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Xah Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 23 02:49:47 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KAaFe-0001dw-DP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:49:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51493 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KAaEp-0000Kg-3G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:48:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KAaEW-0000Ik-Us for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:48:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KAaEV-0000Gt-6u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:48:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58166 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KAaEV-0000Gq-3j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:48:35 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:47476) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KAaEU-0006eC-T3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:48:35 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-59.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.59]:64867 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KAaET-0006ZL-6a; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:48:33 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <635b5b5f-398f-44a0-8bf2-873a050696bb@v1g2000pra.googlegroups.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080622-0, 2008-06-22), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.145.59 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KAaET-0006ZL-6a. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KAaET-0006ZL-6a 51cad7c1fe8b47479796c6648842169f X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:55040 Archived-At: Xah wrote: > when i create a new buffer, how can i make emacs ask to save if it is > modified? > > for example, i have this function: > > (defun new-empty-buffer () > "Opens a new empty buffer." > (interactive) > (let ((buf (generate-new-buffer "untitled"))) > (switch-to-buffer buf) > (funcall (and initial-major-mode)) > (setq buffer-offer-save t) > )) > > after calling, it'll create a new buffer. Then, if user edit the > buffer, then close it (using either kill-buffer or kill-this-buffer), > then i want emacs to ask whether to save it if the buffer has been > modified. > > according to the manual, the var buffer-offer-save will do it only if > the buffer is a visiting buffer. Then the manual talks about save-some- > buffers second argument but i don't see how this fits together, since > i don't actually want to call save-some-buffers. (info "(elisp) Killing Buffers")