From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrea Crotti Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Protecting buffers which aren't visiting files Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:28:07 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1287921707.15997.1401654367@webmail.messagingengine.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1288020644 9027 80.91.229.12 (25 Oct 2010 15:30:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:30:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 25 17:30:42 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PAP0T-00046R-St for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:30:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51376 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PAP0T-0001jr-6z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:30:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33865 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PAOyA-0000dX-0i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:28:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PAOy8-0003KA-Q4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:28:17 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:48391) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PAOy8-0003Jl-Jq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:28:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PAOy7-0002uT-2F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:28:15 +0200 Original-Received: from ip1-201.halifax.rwth-aachen.de ([137.226.108.201]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:28:15 +0200 Original-Received: from andrea.crotti.0 by ip1-201.halifax.rwth-aachen.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:28:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip1-201.halifax.rwth-aachen.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iF7TklNwKLFZhmhRuCpZgyws3No= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:75222 Archived-At: "Otto Maddox" writes: > I use a lot of scratch buffers (which don't visit files), and I've lost > a lot of work due to accidentally quitting Emacs or killing those > buffers, because Emacs doesn't ask for confirmation. Is there a way of > configuring Emacs to treat buffers which don't visit files the same way > as file-visiting buffers, for this situation? > > Thanks. Actually I also did but nothing important luckily, I always saved somewhere before... I can't find any but there should be a variable somewhere to set this. And I also always thought that those scratch buffers where saved somewhere in /tmp, but I can't find that either...