Re: Alerts for saves to non-existent files

[kj <no.email@please.post>]

In <slrnk3sit9.dkp.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl> Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com> writes:

>kj wrote:
>> Is there a way to tell Emacs that, from now on, it should save all
>> changes to this buffer to the new path (and preferably without
>> asking for any additional confirmation)?

>you can use C-x C-w to save a buffer to another file. that doesn't delete
>the original file, but using C-x C-w and then deleting the original file
>should cause less vexation than your current scenario. ;-)


No, that doesn't address the problem I tried (but clearly failed)
to describe.  I want to prevent cases in which I *inadvertently*
do C-x C-s, forgetting/not realizing that the current value of
buffer-file-name is a non-existent path.

In fact, I'd be completely satisfied if in such situations Emacs
handled C-x C-s in basically the same way it does for buffers (e.g.
*scratch* or *shell*) whose buffer-file-name is nil, namely by
prompting the user for a "File to save in: ...".  The only difference
between these two cases would be that in the former one, the proposed
path following the prompt would be the (non-existent) path currently
in buffer-file-name, while in the latter it is only directory
prefix, to which the user must add a basename.