Subject: Re: bug#14512: 24,3; buffer-offer-save doesn't seem to have any effect

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 19:09:57 -0400

If you want Emacs to 

1) offer to save a buffer on exit
2) offer to save a buffer on C-x k

then why not simply make that buffer visit a file?

Because you also probably want

3) some kind of auto-save in case your computer dies while you are
editing the buffer