From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now? Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 08:24:00 +0100 Message-ID: <87o8273chb.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <019b7e509c29caa462ff1c30079ce9bfb8cdc668.camel@adminart.net> <8335jklmyf.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6075"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:elsze9eu6In9bg5NaXyfl+8YcJE= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 15 16:41:33 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nU9Ij-0001Ns-9s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2022 16:41:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48464 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nU9Ih-0000cy-QZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2022 11:41:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51994) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nU1XQ-0007uj-6f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2022 03:24:12 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:55482) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nU1XO-00067r-GJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2022 03:24:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nU1XL-0000J2-5x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2022 08:24:07 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 11:35:41 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:136584 Archived-At: Jean Louis wrote: > Buffer not visiting file does not know where it should > be saved. I've got news for you, because there is a present working directory, with `pwd'. C-u M-x pwd RET /home/incal/News/ :) PS. In Unix many people think pwd(1) is a shell tool (program) written in C - they are right, but what you get with just "pwd" in the shell is more often a shell built-in command that has higher priority than the tool ... observe: $ t pwd # https://dataswamp.org/~incal/conf/.zsh/ide line 74-108 pwd: shell built-in command /bin/pwd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 43K Sep 24 2020 /bin/pwd /usr/bin/pwd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 43K Sep 24 2020 /usr/bin/pwd -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal