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Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye]
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye] |
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Fri, 28 Jun 2002 11:41:12 -0600 (MDT) |
So how about a variable like `ask-about-saving-user-scratch-buffers',
with `nil' meaning `never' (the current behavior), `ask' meaning ask the
above question and if so treat them like unsaved file-buffers, and any
other non-nil value meaning always treat them like unsaved file-buffers.
That sounds good.
That's similar to setting `buffer-offer-save' to t by default and
forcing modes that create temporary, discardable buffers to explicitly
set it to nil, isn't it?
It is similar, but I think it is good to have a separate option
to control this, and it is better for that option to take effect
when you exit rather than when you create the buffer. So there needs
to be a way to distinguish these buffers from other buffers.
Perhaps a value `maybe' for `buffer-offer-save' would be the way to do
it. When `buffer-offer-save' has that value, during saving before
exit, `offer-saving-scratch-buffers' would be obeyed.
As for the easy way to set up that value for `buffer-offer-save',
perhaps `switch-to-buffer' could do this whenever it creates a buffer.
That way, all the Lisp programs that create buffers would not be
affected.
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], (continued)
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Alex Schroeder, 2002/06/24
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Miles Bader, 2002/06/24
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Alex Schroeder, 2002/06/24
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Miles Bader, 2002/06/24
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Francesco Potorti`, 2002/06/25
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Werner LEMBERG, 2002/06/25
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Richard Stallman, 2002/06/26
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Miles Bader, 2002/06/26
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Alex Schroeder, 2002/06/28
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Richard Stallman, 2002/06/29
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye],
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Eli Zaretskii, 2002/06/30
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Juanma Barranquero, 2002/06/27
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Francesco Potorti`, 2002/06/27
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Richard Stallman, 2002/06/28
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Jon Cast, 2002/06/24
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Miles Bader, 2002/06/24
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Jon Cast, 2002/06/24
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Miles Bader, 2002/06/24
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Paul Stoeber, 2002/06/24
- Re: address@hidden: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye], Richard Stallman, 2002/06/23