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24.1; Too easy to forget things with remember

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From: "Sebastien Vauban" <sva-news <at> mygooglest.com>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 13566 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13566: 24.1; Too easy to forget things with remember
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 15:22:57 +0200

Hello,

Reuben Thomas wrote:
> On 14 May 2013 08:42, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>> Reuben Thomas wrote:
>>
>> > The *Remember* buffer, as a non-file-visiting buffer, does not cause a
>> > prompt when you kill it or exit Emacs with the contents unsaved. This is
>> > unfortunate: I just lost 15 minutes' work when I hit C-x C-c in
>> > remember-mode by mistake instead of C-c C-c.
>> >
>> > I can fix this particular problem by adding
>> >
>> > (lambda nil (setq buffer-offer-save t))
>> >
>> > to remember-mode-hook, but shouldn't this be the default behavior?
>>
>> Sounds right, please apply.
>> Or maybe (I don't use remember) you want to add remember-finalize to
>> kill-emacs-hook or kill-emacs-query-functions.
>>
>
> It seems to me that it's more consistent to make Emacs prompt to save the
> remember buffer, as it does for other unsaved buffers (the alternative
> suggested here would make Emacs silently save the remember buffer if
> exited), but I'd appreciate some guidance.

Please note that `remember' has been replaced by `org-capture', at least if we
speak of the same...

Best regards,
  Seb

-- 
Sebastien Vauban

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