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On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 18:24:22 -0400, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

> Simply asking a question like that, at exit time, could be a good
> idea.  One more question at exit won't be terribly annoying, because
> exiting is infrequent and often asks several questions.  The question
> could say "Ask you now about saving buffers that have no files?".  I
> think that is clear.
> 
> It could do this only if "hand-made" buffers exist, so that in many cases
> you won't be asked the question at all.

That's similar to setting `buffer-offer-save' to t by default and
forcing modes that create temporary, discardable buffers to explicitly
set it to nil, isn't it?


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