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From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: make emacs switch to front unsaved buffer when quit
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 18:08:43 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <223f2c09-2d28-4006-991b-6e15724df697@8g2000pbm.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.541.1333587088.20052.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

On Apr 4, 5:50 pm, Juanma Barranquero <lek...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 17:35, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > when quitting emacs “save-buffers-kill-terminal” 【Ctrl+x Ctrl+c】,
> > emacs will ask to save unsaved buffer, but doesn't switch it to front
> > to let you see.
>
> That runs save-buffers-kill-emacs, which runs save-some-buffers, whose
> docstring says:
>
>   You can answer `y' to save, `n' not to save, `C-r' to look at the
>   buffer in question with `view-buffer' before deciding or `d' to
>   view the differences using `diff-buffer-with-file'.
>
>     Juanma

i tried Ctrl+r but that doesn't work. But what i actually wanted is
for emacs to switch the buffer in question automatically.

am surprised this wasn't default, till someone asked me, and i
realized being annoyed by it too.

 Xah


      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-05  1:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-04 15:35 make emacs switch to front unsaved buffer when quit Xah Lee
2012-04-05  0:50 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-04-05  1:27   ` Drew Adams
     [not found] ` <mailman.541.1333587088.20052.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-04-05  1:08   ` Xah Lee [this message]

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