Re: A new(?) warning of erase-buffer, which was not seen before.

[Davis Herring]

> Come to think of it, my original post was concerning a buffer
> which actually contains interactive-shell mode buffer (I invoked it
> with M-x shell and then later renamed it to "*sim*" since a buffer
> of which name starts with "*" is not the target of confirmation for saving
> when
> we quit emacs. The buffer contains the massive output of
> a running simulator program which I want to check from time to time,
> but basically I can safely throw it away whenever the
> buffer becomes too large.

For the record, the * in the buffer name has nothing to do with that
decision; it's that `buffer-file-name' and `buffer-offer-save' are both
nil in a buffer.  (When you do C-x s instead of C-x C-c, and for the "exit
anyway?" query, only `buffer-file-name' counts.)

Davis

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