From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dave@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: (kill-buffer "*scratch*") Date: 23 Sep 2004 15:07:43 -0400 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <81hdporegw.fsf@adboyd.com> References: <4152EDE3.8010702@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1095966561 15314 80.91.229.6 (23 Sep 2004 19:09:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 19:09:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 23 21:09:15 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 1CAYxu-00029z-00 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:09:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CAZ3w-0002eT-S8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:15:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CAZ3d-0002aH-Oc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:15:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CAZ3a-0002ZJ-Ny for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:15:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CAZ3a-0002YY-7L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:15:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CAYwa-0001jc-8N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:07:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CAYwY-0005Ff-00 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:07:50 +0200 Original-Received: from wbar5.tampa1-4-11-125-246.dsl-verizon.net ([4.11.125.246]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:07:50 +0200 Original-Received: from dave by wbar5.tampa1-4-11-125-246.dsl-verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:07:50 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: wbar5.tampa1-4-11-125-246.dsl-verizon.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 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:20837 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20837 Kevin Rodgers writes: > 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 Excellent idea. I'm adding this to my .emacs right away, and thanks. Dave