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Re: A wish, a plea
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David Kastrup |
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Re: A wish, a plea |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:08:53 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.51 (gnu/linux) |
Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:
> David Kastrup wrote:
>> Being reminded of Notepad and Word is not in itself good or bad.
>> Could you explain where the peskiness lies?
>>
>
> You came up with one good source of peskiness yourself:
>
>> Uh, it has the nasty side effect of starting to write to my disk
>> without asking my confirmation. 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.
I never argued for abolishing the *scratch* buffer (not auto-saved).
And I find it quite appropriate that two instances of modified
*unnamed* buffers (auto-saved) will complain eventually.
That's inherent in the design if we want to offer buffers that are not
volatile but still basically anonymous.
--
David Kastrup
- 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 <=
- Re: A wish, a plea, David Kastrup, 2007/06/22
- Re: A wish, a plea, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/06/22
- 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