From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:55:58 -0600 Message-ID: References: <4F8F2293.1020504@dogan.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1334814923 14526 80.91.229.3 (19 Apr 2012 05:55:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 05:55:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 19 07:55:23 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SKkKw-0008Vu-Nh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:55:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50324 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SKkKw-0006OX-1v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:55:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34691) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SKkKq-0006OI-FH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:55:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SKkKo-0001S6-SR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:55:16 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59103) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SKkKo-0001Rt-LE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:55:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SKkKm-0008Nr-2d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:55:12 +0200 Original-Received: from c-71-237-25-24.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([71.237.25.24]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:55:11 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-71-237-25-24.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:55:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-25-24.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.28) Gecko/20120306 Thunderbird/3.1.20 In-Reply-To: <4F8F2293.1020504@dogan.se> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84507 Archived-At: On 4/18/12 2:22 PM, Deniz Dogan wrote: > On 2012-04-18 21:33, Aaron Meurer wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Xah Lee wrote: >> > 2.When the scratch buffer is closed, emacs does not prompt user to >>> save it. This easily causes data loss. >> >> I think this is the whole point. >> > > Indeed. Any buffer whose name starts and ends with an apostrophe has this > behavior, if I remember correctly. s/apostrophe/asterisk/ I think that's just a convention, but not enforced by Emacs. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA