Raymond Zeitler <r.zeit...@ieee.org> wrote:
> After typing a note, I pressed C-u C-c C-c and unintentionally killed the
> buffer without saving the note. I should've pressed C-c C-c, but I'm so
> used to pressing C-u C-c C-c to refile each new task, that I used that key
> combination instead.
>
> Why would adding a prefix argument to C-c C-c kill *Org Note*?
>
It seems it's by design: org-store-log-note() contains the following code:
...
(when (or current-prefix-arg org-note-abort)
(when org-log-into-drawer
(org-remove-empty-drawer-at
(if (stringp org-log-into-drawer) org-log-into-drawer "LOGBOOK")
org-log-note-marker))
(setq lines nil))
so current-prefix-arg causes lines to be set to nil, and the note is just
thrown away.
> In general I'm nervous about using scratch buffers such as *Org Note* for
> anything I wish to save. Is there an option to auto-save its contents to a
> visited file called something like ~/#Org Note#? Or can I add a
> confirmation before I close the buffer? Perhaps if I modified
> org-add-log-note to somehow change the call to
> (org-switch-to-buffer-other-window "Org Note")...?
>
You can try getting rid of the current-prefix-arg and see if you get
into other problems, but only Carsten can say why it is that way to
begin with.
Nick
PS. I did some git archaelogy:
commit 3d2e1c0f04c4bb3eaeb2627d00c8cba6e376f8eb modified things a bit in
this part of the code, but the current-prefix-arg behavior predated
it. The earliest commits I found were commit
2b3fe71634d8afb7e5e6da7606223e82481f0fa8 which added the capability to
add a note interactively and also remotely from the agenda, and commit
fe939ecb95d36377162bf1cb9ce63c2b6047612b which was a massive structure
cleanup/reorg with no substantive code changes, but I think the
org-store-log-note() function existed before the git era.
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