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Re: Protecting buffers which aren't visiting files
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Arnaldo Mandel |
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Re: Protecting buffers which aren't visiting files |
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Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:24:13 -0200 |
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Otto Maddox <ottomaddox@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 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?
There are lots of ways of implementing buffer-saving policies; quite
likely you don't want all
scratch buffers to ask to be saved (as per the buffer-offer-save local
variable).
Look up the command save-some-buffers in the elisp manual for the
route to solving your problem.