Add `remember-notes' function to store random notes across Emacs

restarts.
* remember.el (remember-data-file): Add :set callback to affect
notes buffer (if any).
(remember-notes): New command.
(remember-notes-buffer-name, bury-remember-notes-on-kill):
New defcustoms for the `remember-notes' function.
(remember-notes-save-and-bury-buffer): New command.
(remember-notes-mode-map): New variable.
(remember-mode): New minor mode.
(remember-notes--kill-buffer-query): New function.
* lisp/startup.el (initial-buffer-choice): Add notes to custom type.
* src/buffer.c (FKill_buffer): Run `kill-buffer-query-functions'
before checking whether buffer is modified.  This lets
`kill-buffer-query-functions' cancel killing of the buffer or save
its content before `kill-buffer' asks user the "Buffer %s
modified; kill anyway?" question.

* remember.el (remember-append-to-file):
Don't mix `find-buffer-visiting' and `get-file-buffer'.

* lisp/files.el (find-file-noselect): Simplify conditional expression.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index c8bf903c57..3a8ef2314a 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -90,6 +90,14 @@ simply disabling Transient Mark mode does the same thing.
 ** `initial-buffer-choice' can now specify a function to set up the
 initial buffer.
 
+** `remember-notes' creates a buffer whose content is saved on kill-emacs.
+You may think of it as a *scratch* buffer whose content is preserved.
+In fact, it was designed as a replacement for *scratch* buffer and can
+be used that way by setting `initial-buffer-choice' to `remember-notes'
+and `remember-notes-buffer-name' to "*scratch*".  Without the second
+change, *scratch* buffer will still be there for notes that do not
+need to be preserved.
+
 ** `write-region-inhibit-fsync' now defaults to t in batch mode.
 
 ** ACL support has been added.