Re: no questions when quitting

[Anselm Helbig]

Hi!

> How can I force emacs to quit immediately after pressing C-x C-c
> without asking any questions.
> I would like all remaining modified buffers to be not saved and all
> running emacs subprocesses to be killed.
> 
> I read in info documentation that confirm-kill-emacs variable adjusts
> this behaviour.
> Unfortunately I don't know to which value I should set it to achieve
> what I want since nil value leads me to yes-or-no-p function.

`confirm-kill-emacs' does something different: you can have it ask for
confirmation even if no buffers need saving. You can achieve this by
binding C-x C-c to `kill-emacs' instead of `save-buffers-kill-emacs':

  (global-set-key (kbd "C-x C-c") 'kill-emacs)

BTW, `save-buffers-kill-emacs' takes a prefix argument in which case
it saves all pending changes automatically - which you said is not
what you want. 

However, you might want to change the way you work: if you need a
buffer with contents you don't want to save, just don't associate a
file with it! Creating sucha buffer is easy, just give switch-buffer
(C-x b) the name of a buffer that doesn't yet exist. You have to set
the major mode you want manually, though.

HTH, 

Anselm


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