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On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> I don't think we should actively support this "create buffer and then save"
> model of creating files, because it suffers from the fact that it doesn't
> know which major-mode to use for the buffer (plus other limitations
> like the lack of auto-saving etc...).

How about adding some code so that when you kill a buffer created by the 
user (as opposed to buffers created by commands as part of their 
operation), Emacs will ask whether to save it?