demerphq wrote:
> Why would anyone think it is sensible to provide useful functionality
> that can only be accessed by closing the application?
>
> When I write Perl scripts I often use gedit to execute the program and
> capture the output in the editor. Sometimes I want the sequence of
> output changes preserved, sometimes I don't, but I usually do, so I
> leave it in the "generate a new file per execution" mode most of the
> time. But then occasionally I want to clean up and close all the
> output tabs.
>
> Is there a way to do it? Not really. You have to close them one by
> one, and since gedit thinks they are edited it does the "Are you sure
> you want to close this" malarky every time.
Emacs has this hate, too. I haven't yet found a "close all buffers" function,
though at least I can find out quickly what has unsaved changes.
I could probably hack something together in elisp, but then I'd have to touch
elisp and the hate rapidly gets recursive.
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