all messages for Emacs-related lists mirrored at yhetil.org
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Protecting buffers which aren't visiting files
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:41:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tykae6e8.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.8.1288013451.788.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

"Otto Maddox" <ottomaddox@fastmail.fm> writes:

> I use a lot of scratch buffers (which don't visit files), and I've lost
> a lot of work due to accidentally quitting Emacs or killing those
> buffers, because Emacs doesn't ask for confirmation. Is there a way of
> configuring Emacs to treat buffers which don't visit files the same way
> as file-visiting buffers, for this situation?

I just create scratch _files_.

    C-x C-f scratch1.txt RET
         ^

instead of:

    C-x  b  scratch1.buf RET

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/


       reply	other threads:[~2010-10-25 13:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.8.1288013451.788.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-10-25 13:41 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
2010-12-09 22:15   ` Protecting buffers which aren't visiting files Drew Adams
2010-10-25 14:04 ` Ralf Fassel
2010-10-24 12:01 Otto Maddox
2010-10-25 15:28 ` Andrea Crotti
2010-10-25 15:37   ` Jeff Rancier
2010-10-25 16:24 ` Arnaldo Mandel

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=87tykae6e8.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com \
    --to=pjb@informatimago.com \
    --cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.