Killing all buffers

Killing all buffers

[Alberto Simões]

Hi,

Is there any way to kill all buffers (and get prompted about the ones 
not saved)?

 From time to time I like to kill all opened buffers (for instance when 
changing from projects), and it takes me a long time killing one at a time.

Thank you
Kind regards
Alberto

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Alberto Simões - Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho
                  Campus de Gualtar - 4710-057 Braga - Portugal

Re: Killing all buffers

[Joost Kremers]

Alberto Simões wrote:
> Is there any way to kill all buffers (and get prompted about the ones 
> not saved)?
>
>  From time to time I like to kill all opened buffers (for instance when 
> changing from projects), and it takes me a long time killing one at a time.

there is a command kill-some-buffers, which asks you for each open buffer
if you want it killed.

you still need to type yes or no for each buffer, so in actual fact it may
be less trouble just to kill and restart emacs...

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Re: Killing all buffers

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

+ Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com>:

| Alberto Simões wrote:
|> Is there any way to kill all buffers (and get prompted about the ones 
|> not saved)?
|>
|>  From time to time I like to kill all opened buffers (for instance when 
|> changing from projects), and it takes me a long time killing one at a time.
|
| there is a command kill-some-buffers, which asks you for each open buffer
| if you want it killed.
|
| you still need to type yes or no for each buffer, so in actual fact it may
| be less trouble just to kill and restart emacs...

As usual, google is your friend.  There is a solution here, at the
second hit on googling for   emacs "kill all buffers"  :

  http://www.shallowsky.com/dotfiles/.emacs

It calls kill-buffer on each buffer, which means no questions asked
unless the buffer is unsaved.

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* Harald Hanche-Olsen     <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- It is undesirable to believe a proposition
  when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
  -- Bertrand Russell

Re: Killing all buffers

[Sebastian P. Luque]

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:35:08 +0000,
Alberto Simões <albie@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt> wrote:

> Hi,

> Is there any way to kill all buffers (and get prompted about the ones
> not saved)?

> From time to time I like to kill all opened buffers (for instance when
> changing from projects), and it takes me a long time killing one at a
> time.

The bs (no pun intended) library is very handy for this sort of thing.  I
use the following for handling buffers:

(global-set-key "\C-x\C-b" 'bs-show)

and calling that temporarily splits the window (to a customizible size)
where 'k' would kill the buffer referred to in the current line.  It has
many useful features ('customize-group bs RET').  Would that help?


-- 
Seb

Re: Killing all buffers

[Matthew Flaschen]

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Alberto Simões wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there any way to kill all buffers (and get prompted about the ones
> not saved)?
> 
> From time to time I like to kill all opened buffers (for instance when
> changing from projects), and it takes me a long time killing one at a time.

There was just a long thread about this.  Search the archives.

Matthew Flaschen


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Re: Killing all buffers

[Stefan Reichör]

Alberto Simões <albie@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Is there any way to kill all buffers (and get prompted about the ones
> not saved)?
>
> From time to time I like to kill all opened buffers (for instance when
> changing from projects), and it takes me a long time killing one at a
> time.

There is also M-x desktop-clear:

  desktop-clear is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `desktop.el'.
  (desktop-clear)
   
  Empty the Desktop.
  This kills all buffers except for internal ones and those with names matched by
  a regular expression in the list `desktop-clear-preserve-buffers'.
  Furthermore, it clears the variables listed in `desktop-globals-to-clear'.


Stefan.

RE: Killing all buffers

[Drew Adams]

> > Is there any way to kill all buffers
>
> There was just a long thread about this.  Search the archives.

The thread was at the end of January, subject "how can i kill all the
buffers".

My contribution:  "In Icicles:  C-x k TAB C-!"
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en/Icicles

Re: Killing all buffers

[Matthew Flaschen]

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Stefan Reichör wrote:
> Alberto Simões <albie@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt> writes:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there any way to kill all buffers (and get prompted about the ones
>> not saved)?
>>
>> From time to time I like to kill all opened buffers (for instance when
>> changing from projects), and it takes me a long time killing one at a
>> time.
> 
> There is also M-x desktop-clear:

This doesn't seem to be loaded by default.

Adding:

(require 'desktop)

to .emacs worked.

Matthew Flaschen



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