From: Arnaldo Mandel <amandel@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Protecting buffers which aren't visiting files
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:24:13 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=M-Nt2dpjLzz-xBkDDCG=wGvhE=Vr=zm+w3+Af@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1287921707.15997.1401654367@webmail.messagingengine.com>
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Otto Maddox <ottomaddox@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 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?
There are lots of ways of implementing buffer-saving policies; quite
likely you don't want all
scratch buffers to ask to be saved (as per the buffer-offer-save local
variable).
Look up the command save-some-buffers in the elisp manual for the
route to solving your problem.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-25 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-24 12:01 Protecting buffers which aren't visiting files Otto Maddox
2010-10-25 15:28 ` Andrea Crotti
2010-10-25 15:37 ` Jeff Rancier
2010-10-25 16:24 ` Arnaldo Mandel [this message]
[not found] <mailman.8.1288013451.788.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-10-25 13:41 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-12-09 22:15 ` Drew Adams
2010-10-25 14:04 ` Ralf Fassel
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