GNU bug report logs - #13566
24.1; Too easy to forget things with remember

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>

Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:44:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.1

Fixed in version 24.4

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
Cc: 13566 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13566: 24.1; Too easy to forget things with remember
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 03:42:20 -0400

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.
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