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* I want an unsaveable buffer
@ 2014-08-04 15:48 Doug Lewan
  2014-08-04 17:12 ` Grant Rettke
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From: Doug Lewan @ 2014-08-04 15:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

I work in *scratch* a lot, /and/ I save (C-xC-s) very frequently just as a matter of habit. The consequence is that I find myself typing to the "File to save in:" prompt when I just want to continue working.

Turning off or remapping C-xC-s in *scratch* is easy enough, but the obviously useful generalization is to turn saving off in any new buffer not associated with a regular file. (Writing buffer contents would remain, but you already have to think when you want that.)

The natural route is to write a hook for buffer creation. The only hook I can find for that is buffer-list-update-hook which is also run on renaming, deletion, etc. I can imagine grabbing the output of (backtrace) to look at how the hook was called, but that no longer feels natural to me.

Does anyone know of a natural approach to this?

Thanks.

,Doug
Douglas Lewan
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