Re: Q from emacs dummy

[Barry Margolin]

In article <slrngump5m.38d.notbob@bb.nothome.com>,
 notbob <notbob@nothome.com> wrote:

> I love emacs as a file manager.  Still learning for editing and other
> subtleties.  Ran into real bizarre behavior, recently.  In dired mode and
> had a new file buffer open.  I tried to close emacs (C-x C-c) and got the
> usual "wanna save file" (no), etc, but still would not close emacs.  Only
> when I killed the buffer would it close.  How can I force close emacs,
> regardless of open buffers?

You should have gotten two questions.  The first question is whether you 
want to save the file (say "no"), the second question is whether you 
want to exit with unsaved bufferes (say "yes").

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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