From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Q from emacs dummy Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:42:44 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1240170105 17694 80.91.229.12 (19 Apr 2009 19:41:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:41:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 19 21:43:04 2009 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 4.50) id 1Lvcuu-00045E-5K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:43:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38790 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LvctU-0005AV-OQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:41:36 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!feeder.motzarella.org!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX19iEzc5wY80cdV5J0EPXsVTgiX0+UHx15GXzf6hw+W9Fg0cCfZQ8PDa+8ZN/ynSwjpvzcXE5bNicGanZef7QTo0p18bKQGasAEL59Y+pd4KBdLn5+3K4vtWmPdnCRLDZK8i64xYSPIikw== Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:42:00 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX19M7+pPjmHDzHxzMfVeI5zkJlr8J3KDT0c= Cancel-Lock: sha1:wl2ZsQYXnGnzss6aItiEZu5g2cU= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Mail-Copies-To: nobody Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:168609 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:63882 Archived-At: In article , notbob wrote: > I love emacs as a file manager. Still learning for editing and other > subtleties. Ran into real bizarre behavior, recently. In dired mode and > had a new file buffer open. I tried to close emacs (C-x C-c) and got the > usual "wanna save file" (no), etc, but still would not close emacs. Only > when I killed the buffer would it close. How can I force close emacs, > regardless of open buffers? You should have gotten two questions. The first question is whether you want to save the file (say "no"), the second question is whether you want to exit with unsaved bufferes (say "yes"). -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***