Re: Keep losing work in non-file-visiting buffers

[Kevin Rodgers]

sebyte wrote:

> once again i've spoken too soon. things are much better but still not 
> perfect. there are buffers in use that don't appear in *Buffer List* 
> such as *temp* which i have to kill each time I use 'C-x d' to view a 
> directory.  also Python mode uses temporary buffers which I now have to 
> 'confirm kill'.

The buffers that are omitted from *Buffer List* have names that begin with

a space (C-h k C-x C-b):

(add-hook 'kill-buffer-query-functions  ; for kill-buffer
          (lambda ()
            (or buffer-file-name
                (not (buffer-modified-p))
                (equal (string-to-char (buffer-name)) ? )       ; or *?
                (yes-or-no-p (format "Buffer %s modified; kill anyway? "
                                     (buffer-name))))))

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Kevin Rodgers