From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Q from emacs dummy Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:50:19 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87skk4edil.fsf@galatea.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1240170159 17826 80.91.229.12 (19 Apr 2009 19:42:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:42:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 19 21:43:58 2009 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 1Lvcvm-0004IW-Cm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:43:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39282 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LvcuN-0005mO-HW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:42:31 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!backlog2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.sysmatrix.net!news.sysmatrix.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:50:21 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <87skk4edil.fsf@galatea.local> Original-Lines: 17 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.73.129.45 Original-X-Trace: sv3-JI1c8xwJSkszU7iRXnLBiooBUqQ0fruW2qYxZjdaaXGXFgUUnF6pTG37ZJplxcTjbwDsWU7tTgjb+vN!v+L6xZZKAgDokUfcBrTHbvcPPI6Sq2+rfugvQ4fZxbC/7PGzGXyl7CeceSOLg7bR7ivXvGZ6vkoS!2i5EEB15tMoWQInmR3Relv1a3KxHoA== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sysmatrix.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 X-Original-Bytes: 2025 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:168610 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:63883 Archived-At: Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > notbob 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?