Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer

[Kevin Rodgers]

On 4/18/12 2:22 PM, Deniz Dogan wrote:
> On 2012-04-18 21:33, Aaron Meurer wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Xah Lee<xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 2.When the scratch buffer is closed, emacs does not prompt user to
> > > save it. This easily causes data loss.
> >
> > I think this is the whole point.
>
> Indeed. Any buffer whose name starts and ends with an apostrophe has this
> behavior, if I remember correctly.

s/apostrophe/asterisk/

I think that's just a convention, but not enforced by Emacs.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA