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Re: Protecting buffers which aren't visiting files


From: Pascal J. Bourguignon
Subject: Re: Protecting buffers which aren't visiting files
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:33:18 -0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux)

"Otto Maddox" <ottomaddox@fastmail.fm> writes:

> I use a lot of scratch buffers (which don't visit files), and I've lost
> a lot of work due to accidentally quitting Emacs or killing those
> buffers, because Emacs doesn't ask for confirmation. Is there a way of
> configuring Emacs to treat buffers which don't visit files the same way
> as file-visiting buffers, for this situation?

I just create scratch _files_.

    C-x C-f scratch1.txt RET
         ^

instead of:

    C-x  b  scratch1.buf RET

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__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/


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