Q from emacs dummy

Q from emacs dummy

[notbob]

I love emacs as a file manager.  Still learning for editing and other
subtleties.  Ran into real bizarre behavior, recently.  In dired mode and
had a new file buffer open.  I tried to close emacs (C-x C-c) and got the
usual "wanna save file" (no), etc, but still would not close emacs.  Only
when I killed the buffer would it close.  How can I force close emacs,
regardless of open buffers?

nb

Re: Q from emacs dummy

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

notbob <notbob@nothome.com> writes:

> I love emacs as a file manager.  Still learning for editing and other
> subtleties.  Ran into real bizarre behavior, recently.  In dired mode and
> had a new file buffer open.  I tried to close emacs (C-x C-c) and got the
> usual "wanna save file" (no), etc, but still would not close emacs.  Only
> when I killed the buffer would it close.  How can I force close emacs,
> regardless of open buffers?

I don't understand.  Why would you quit emacs?

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__

Re: Q from emacs dummy

[B. T. Raven]

notbob wrote:
> I love emacs as a file manager.  Still learning for editing and other
> subtleties.  Ran into real bizarre behavior, recently.  In dired mode and
> had a new file buffer open.  I tried to close emacs (C-x C-c) and got the
> usual "wanna save file" (no), etc, but still would not close emacs.  Only
> when I killed the buffer would it close.  How can I force close emacs,
> regardless of open buffers?
> 
> nb

M-x kill-emacs

Re: Q from emacs dummy

[Barry Margolin]

In article <slrngump5m.38d.notbob@bb.nothome.com>,
 notbob <notbob@nothome.com> wrote:

> I love emacs as a file manager.  Still learning for editing and other
> subtleties.  Ran into real bizarre behavior, recently.  In dired mode and
> had a new file buffer open.  I tried to close emacs (C-x C-c) and got the
> usual "wanna save file" (no), etc, but still would not close emacs.  Only
> when I killed the buffer would it close.  How can I force close emacs,
> regardless of open buffers?

You should have gotten two questions.  The first question is whether you 
want to save the file (say "no"), the second question is whether you 
want to exit with unsaved bufferes (say "yes").

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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Re: Q from emacs dummy

[B. T. Raven]

Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> notbob <notbob@nothome.com> writes:
> 
>> I love emacs as a file manager.  Still learning for editing and other
>> subtleties.  Ran into real bizarre behavior, recently.  In dired mode and
>> had a new file buffer open.  I tried to close emacs (C-x C-c) and got the
>> usual "wanna save file" (no), etc, but still would not close emacs.  Only
>> when I killed the buffer would it close.  How can I force close emacs,
>> regardless of open buffers?
> 
> I don't understand.  Why would you quit emacs?

That's a good question, especially since the o.p. uses Emacs primarily 
for file management. But still he should see "Modified buffers exist... 
etc" after answering "No" or "No for all" So he isn't allowed to abandon 
that changed (or new) buffer. How could that happen?