bug#15902: 24.3.50; ?Auto-save file not deleted when quitting Emacs (and saying "don't?save")

[Alan Mackenzie]

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).