Re: Saving Buffer

[CarlC]

"Phillip Lord" <p.lord@russet.org.uk> wrote in message
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> >>>>> "CarlC" == CarlC  <carlc@snowbd.com> writes:
>
>   CarlC> The function save-buffers-kill-emacs goes through each
>   CarlC> modified buffer with a file assocation and asks "Save file
>   CarlC> /home/carl/trash? (y, n, !, ., q, C-r or C-h)". Is this
>   CarlC> functionality available for a single (current) buffer? I
>   CarlC> cannot find a command similar to this. I just want to say
>   CarlC> kill-buffer, but ask to save if it is modified. I don't want
>   CarlC> it to kill-emacs.
>
>
> This should be the default behaviour. Certainly if I do kill-buffer,
> then I get "Buffer blah.txt modified: kill anyway?"

Not exactly what one would want. I guess you have to do save-buffer and then
kill-buffer. Ugh.

> This doesn't happen if the buffer is not associated with a file. So
> *scratch* can be killed in this way. If you want to stop this, you'll
> need to add a function to "kill-buffer-hook" to query the user first.

That's what I was afraid of. Seems a shame to have to reinvent the wheel.