From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get rid of *GNU Emacs* buffer on start-up? Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:13:49 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <873ajzwoqu.fsf@kobe.laptop> <823901dd-c54c-4e3b-b6ad-512d52724a46@z11g2000prl.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221835308 14030 80.91.229.12 (19 Sep 2008 14:41:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:41:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 19 16:42:43 2008 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 1KghBq-0001df-Jj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:42:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42343 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KghAp-0005VM-D6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:41:31 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!a29g2000pra.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.185.159 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1221833629 9376 127.0.0.1 (19 Sep 2008 14:13:49 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:13:49 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a29g2000pra.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.185.159; posting-account=qPxGtQkAAADb6PWdLGiWVucht1ZDR6fn User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.22, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:162455 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:57798 Archived-At: Xah wrote: > Suggestions on Emacs's Scratch Buffer > http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization_scratch_buffer.html On Sep 19, 6:08 am, xraysmalev...@gmail.com wrote: > Emacs provides a user level function to create a new buffer. C-x b, > and enter a name of a non-existing buffer. >... > And if I close it without saving, > Emacs prompts me gently -- it doesn't demand a filename, it asks if I > want to save it. And only then, if I say yes, does it prompt for a > filename. How polite. what you reported doesn't seems to be the emacs behavior for me. For example: Type C-x b xyz RET to create a new buffer named xyz. Type something in it. Now type M-x kill-buffer RET. The buffer will be killed with all content lost. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84