Re: Keep losing work in non-file-visiting buffers

[Kevin Rodgers]

sebyte wrote:

> actually works too well! am forever being prompted re: buffers that 
> *should* be killed without asking, eg, info, help, gnus buffers etc.  oh 
> well, can't have everything your own way i suppose.

Since *info* and *Help* buffers are never(?) marked as modified, I guess

it's actually save-buffers-kill-emacs (C-x C-c) that's holding you up, not
kill-buffer (C-x k).  And that means it's buffer-offer-save that's at fault,
not kill-buffer-query-functions.


So maybe you just want to turn on buffer-offer-save for buffers you explictly
create, as with switch-to-buffer (C-x b), instead of buffers Emacs creates for
you:

(defadvice switch-to-buffer (after buffer-offer-save activate)
  "Set `buffer-offer-save' when called interactively."
  (and (interactive-p)
       (setq buffer-offer-save t))) ; automatically local in all buffers

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Kevin Rodgers