Re: Emacs ignores modified state of "untitled" buffer

[Kevin Rodgers]

Drew Adams wrote:

> What am I missing? What is wrong with just using (find-file "untitled")?
>
> If a buffer is associated with a file name (which is what `find-file' does) then
> Emacs asks you about saving it.  What else is the OP asking for?

C-x C-s won't ask.

> Everyone seems to be jumping through hoops here, and my mail with this simple
> suggestion was ignored, so I must not be getting it. I really would like to know
> what I'm missing.

I can think of a couple nuisances:

* If the buffer gets saved to file "untitled", a subsequent invocation of emacs
will visit that file, not an empty buffer.

* Changes to the buffer will be auto-saved to the #untitled# file, and a 
subsequent invocation of emacs will ask to recover the file (if the 2 
invocations are concurrent, or if the first invocation exited uncleanly).

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA