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Re: A wish, a plea
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: A wish, a plea |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:57:48 +0300 |
> Cc: Karl Fogel <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden,
> address@hidden
> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:43:52 +0200
>
> > It sounds awful to me. It reminds me Notepad and Word with their
> > pesky UNNAMED and DOCUMENT1 defaults.
>
> Being reminded of Notepad and Word is not in itself good or bad.
> Could you explain where the peskiness lies?
I don't like software that decides for me whether I do or don't want
to write a document, and on top of that decides what would be the name
of that file.
> > Did anyone in this longish thread suggest to simply turn on
> > auto-save in *scratch*, like we do in *mail* buffers? If not, would
> > that solve the OP's problem without any significant nasty side
> > effects?
>
> Uh, it has the nasty side effect of starting to write to my disk
> without asking my confirmation.
The same happens in *mail* buffers. How is this case different?
> If I have started several Emacs
> instances, I don't want them complaining about file locks and similar
> nonsense just because I use the *scratch* buffer in both.
Did you actually try that in *scratch*? I don't think there will be
any locks, since I didn't suggest to give the buffer an associated
file, just to turn on auto-save in it. That's a different thing.
> I don't really think that *scratch* should usually be associated with
> any file.
That's not what I suggested. I suggested the equivalent of
(auto-save-mode 1)
- RE: A wish, a plea, (continued)
- RE: A wish, a plea, Drew Adams, 2007/06/25
- Re: A wish, a plea, Sascha Wilde, 2007/06/22
- Re: A wish, a plea, David Kastrup, 2007/06/22
- Re: A wish, a plea, Nic James Ferrier, 2007/06/22
- Re: A wish, a plea, Karl Fogel, 2007/06/22
- Re: A wish, a plea, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/06/22
- Re: A wish, a plea, David Kastrup, 2007/06/22
- Re: A wish, a plea, Jason Rumney, 2007/06/22
- Re: A wish, a plea, David Kastrup, 2007/06/22
- Re: A wish, a plea, David Kastrup, 2007/06/22
- Re: A wish, a plea,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: A wish, a plea, Glenn Morris, 2007/06/22
- Re: A wish, a plea, Karl Fogel, 2007/06/22
- Re: A wish, a plea, Glenn Morris, 2007/06/22
- Re: A wish, a plea, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/06/22
- Initial splash screen (was Re: A wish, a plea), Stephen Berman, 2007/06/22
- Re: Initial splash screen, David Kastrup, 2007/06/22
- Re: Initial splash screen, Stephen Berman, 2007/06/22
- Re: Initial splash screen, David Kastrup, 2007/06/22
- Re: Initial splash screen, Stephen Berman, 2007/06/22
- Re: Initial splash screen (was Re: A wish, a plea), Richard Stallman, 2007/06/22