From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org
Subject: bug#15902: 24.3.50; ?Auto-save file not deleted when quitting Emacs (and saying "don't?save")
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 15:17:00 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <l6amlc$11kb$1@colin.muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86vbzt3o3p.fsf@somewhere.org>
Hi, Nicolas.
Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> "Sebastien Vauban" <sva-news-D0wtAvR13HarG/iDocfnWg@public.gmane.org>
> writes:
>> Modified buffers exist; exit anyway?
>>
>> I answer "yes".
> FWIW, I (almost) never answer yes in that situation, because I don't
> know which buffers are modified (or worse : I probably think I know, and
> I might be wrong). So I usually say "no", then navigate through each
> "unmodified" buffer (using an #emacs provided command, see below) and
> act there.
> Here's the mentionned defun :
> (defun select-next-modified-buffer ()
> "Select next modified (unsaved) buffer."
> ;; 2012-09-24 22:40 <jlf> (#emacs on freenode)
> (interactive)
> (let ((modified-buffers
> (remove-if-not (lambda (buf) (and
> (buffer-file-name buf) (buffer-modified-p buf)))
> (buffer-list))))
> (if modified-buffers
> (switch-to-buffer (first modified-buffers))
> (message "No modified file-visiting buffers!"))))
As a matter of interest, you might find the command `save-some-buffers' (C-x s)
useful here. It takes you on a tour of all unsaved buffers, prompting you
whether or not to save each one.
> Nico.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-17 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-15 11:23 bug#15902: 24.3.50; Auto-save file not deleted when quitting Emacs (and saying "don't save") Sebastien Vauban
2013-11-15 11:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <83eh6hj34j.fsf-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-15 12:19 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-11-15 14:05 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <jwvhabd4vev.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-15 14:26 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-11-16 1:18 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.6307.1384564761.10748.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-11-27 10:27 ` Francesco Pizzolante
2013-11-16 20:15 ` Nicolas Richard
[not found] ` <mailman.6383.1384633039.10748.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-11-17 15:17 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2019-08-18 17:45 ` Stefan Kangas
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