From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Protecting buffers which aren't visiting files Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:41:51 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87tykae6e8.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291880498 18420 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 07:41:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 07:41:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 08:41:34 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQb89-00023t-FZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 08:41:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56867 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQb88-0002e3-FV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:41:32 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Trace: individual.net ff1vbqfJQ+2ur1Brg3BiVAYAp+uLd769vRDPQNwkd3IXpRWazk Cancel-Lock: sha1:NTliOGY0M2JkOGFiMmFlOWU0ZTZhNTVkNmFhZjdiYWI2ZDQ0MTQ5Ng== sha1:1feV23zJOUjSTwPerHSBg6XnsVc= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:182005 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76838 Archived-At: "Otto Maddox" 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/