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save-some-buffers nil t not documented

#98349
From: Dan_Jacobson
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1991 01:29
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You know how when you exit emacs with C-x C-c, it even offers to save
forgotten "*mail*" buffers, giving you that warm safe feeling, dear
friends [Firesign Theater accent there (never mind)].  Well, I
discovered that same comfy feeling with

(save-some-buffers nil t)

and it doesn't make me exit, too!

But, had I not "used the source, Luke" I would have never known it,
due to a plot by GNU Emacs authors not to document that second
argument in the documentation string [ :-) ]

(defun save-some-buffers (&optional arg exiting)
  "Save some modified file-visiting buffers.  Asks user about each one.
With argument, saves all with no questions."

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