Re: how to make the "file has auto save data..." message unskippable?

[Kevin Rodgers]

ken wrote:
> On 07/06/2009 04:57 AM Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
> > () Nobuko Three <nbko3@yahoo.com>
> > () Sun, 5 Jul 2009 10:29:13 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >    Normally after emacs is crashed, you know you need to use M-x
> >    recover-session, but it could happen that you go to lunch after
> >    crash, you come back, you start emacs again, you forget to do
> >    recover-session and open foo.bar and then also miss the
> >    "foo.txt has auto save data..." message.
> >
> >    How do you deal with this problem?
> >
> > Go to lunch before the crash!
> > Think faster but type slower!
> > Or, (setq message-log-max t),
> > + `C-h e' every now and then.
> >
> > thi
>
> In buffers which have auto-save data I'd like to see an orange
> background.  In addition, I'd like to hear a beep when I try to type
> into that buffer with the standard message/prompt in the minibuffer that
> there's auto-save data... should I pull it in or discard it.

Attached is code that does that, plus undoes all those effects when
you do recover the file.

--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA

recover-this-file-find-file-hook.el
Description: application/emacs-lisp