* lisp/files.el (basic-save-buffer): Use `buffer-name' as the default

of `read-file-name' when buffer is not visiting a file.

Fixes: debbugs:12128

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index f77b5ee9dc4..00cbe9f36ee 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2012-08-08  Juri Linkov  <juri@jurta.org>
 
+        * files.el (basic-save-buffer): Use `buffer-name' as the default
+        of `read-file-name' when buffer is not visiting a file (bug#12128).
+
+2012-08-08  Juri Linkov  <juri@jurta.org>
+
         * info.el (Info-isearch-search): Doc fix.
         (Info-search): Change search-failed message from "initial node" to
         "end of node" (bug#12078).
diff --git a/lisp/files.el b/lisp/files.el
index b54d3d1b60e..c5651135dc1 100644
--- a/lisp/files.el
+++ b/lisp/files.el
@@ -4488,7 +4488,8 @@ Before and after saving the buffer, this function runs
           (or buffer-file-name
               (let ((filename
                      (expand-file-name
-                      (read-file-name "File to save in: ") nil)))
+                      (read-file-name "File to save in: "
+                                      nil (expand-file-name (buffer-name))))))
                 (if (file-exists-p filename)
                     (if (file-directory-p filename)
                         ;; Signal an error if the user specified the name of an