saving buffers options

saving buffers options

[Rustom Mody]

Some buffers can be closed without any questions but for some --
typically file buffers -- if a changed buffer is (tried to be) closed,
a question is asked: Do you want save this...??

I want to get this question for python-mode, shell-mode etc. Is there
some option for this?

Thanks.

Re: saving buffers options

[Rupert Swarbrick]

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"Rustom Mody" <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

> Some buffers can be closed without any questions but for some --
> typically file buffers -- if a changed buffer is (tried to be) closed,
> a question is asked: Do you want save this...??
>
> I want to get this question for python-mode, shell-mode etc. Is there
> some option for this?
>
> Thanks.

Looking at C-h f kill-buffer, I see that kill-buffer-query-functions is
called on kill, but my emacs only has 

  (gnuserv-kill-buffer-query-function)

in there, so it can't be that which checks whether you want to save
dirty files...

However, I just hacked this up:


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which seems to work here. Clearly you'll want to edit
savable-shell-modes and possibly change more than that... But there's a
quick start I think.


Rupert

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Re: saving buffers options

[Kevin Rodgers]

Rustom Mody wrote:
> Some buffers can be closed without any questions but for some --
> typically file buffers -- if a changed buffer is (tried to be) closed,
> a question is asked: Do you want save this...??
> 
> I want to get this question for python-mode, shell-mode etc. Is there
> some option for this?

,----[ C-h v buffer-offer-save RET ]
| buffer-offer-save is a variable defined in `files.el'.
| Its value is nil
|
| Automatically becomes buffer-local when set in any fashion.
|
|
| Documentation:
| Non-nil in a buffer means always offer to save buffer on exit.
| Do so even if the buffer is not visiting a file.
| Automatically local in all buffers.
|
| You can customize this variable.
|
| [back]
`----

So set buffer-offer-save in python-mode-hook, shell-mode-hook, etc.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA