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From: Grant Rettke <gcr@wisdomandwonder.com>
To: Doug Lewan <dougl@shubertticketing.com>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: I want an unsaveable buffer
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 12:12:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAjq1mdEMXPpWH6SudL8Swb48FPhZkdv22BR2zxY8cgo+CJJOg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <155DEC68569B714B86C2C7075F5EDA9892B0FA07@DAKIYA1.pegasus.local>

Totally understood and now I want to tell you on real-auto-save
because I too am a recovering C-x C-s addict.

I add a hook to any buffer that needs it and forget about worrying
about saving all the time.
Grant Rettke | ACM, ASA, FSF, IEEE, SIAM
gcr@wisdomandwonder.com | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/
“Wisdom begins in wonder.” --Socrates
((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x)))
“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop
taking it seriously.” --Thompson


On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Doug Lewan <dougl@shubertticketing.com> wrote:
> I work in *scratch* a lot, /and/ I save (C-xC-s) very frequently just as a matter of habit. The consequence is that I find myself typing to the "File to save in:" prompt when I just want to continue working.
>
> Turning off or remapping C-xC-s in *scratch* is easy enough, but the obviously useful generalization is to turn saving off in any new buffer not associated with a regular file. (Writing buffer contents would remain, but you already have to think when you want that.)
>
> The natural route is to write a hook for buffer creation. The only hook I can find for that is buffer-list-update-hook which is also run on renaming, deletion, etc. I can imagine grabbing the output of (backtrace) to look at how the hook was called, but that no longer feels natural to me.
>
> Does anyone know of a natural approach to this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> ,Doug
> Douglas Lewan
> Shubert Ticketing
> (201) 489-8600 ext 224
>
> Hazmat condition: There's some emacs on the floor.
>
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-04 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-04 15:48 I want an unsaveable buffer Doug Lewan
2014-08-04 17:12 ` Grant Rettke [this message]
2014-08-04 18:37 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-08-04 21:41   ` Doug Lewan
2014-08-05  5:28 ` Kevin Rodgers
2014-08-05 13:22   ` Doug Lewan

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