Mercurial > emacs
changeset 88038:e75f63aebb2b
(view-buffer): Explain in doc-string why exit-action
should not be set to kill-buffer.
| author | Martin Rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> |
|---|---|
| date | Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:19:43 +0000 |
| parents | 35cce79c1900 |
| children | e74ef2442a4a |
| files | lisp/view.el |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lisp/view.el Sun Jan 27 19:58:42 2008 +0000 +++ b/lisp/view.el Sun Jan 27 22:19:43 2008 +0000 @@ -332,7 +332,12 @@ Optional argument EXIT-ACTION is either nil or a function with buffer as argument. This function is called when finished viewing buffer. Use -this argument instead of explicitly setting `view-exit-action'." +this argument instead of explicitly setting `view-exit-action'. + +Do not set EXIT-ACTION to `kill-buffer' when BUFFER visits a +file: Users may suspend viewing in order to modify the buffer. +Exiting View mode will then discard the user's edits. Setting +EXIT-ACTION to `kill-buffer-if-not-modified' avoids this." (interactive "bView buffer: ") (let ((undo-window (list (window-buffer) (window-start) (window-point)))) (switch-to-buffer buffer)