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Re: *scratch* buffer


From: Davis Herring
Subject: Re: *scratch* buffer
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 09:16:13 -0700 (PDT)
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> In the case of saving the scratch buffer in a file like ~/.emacs.d/scratch
> the standard Emacs file locking mechanism takes care of this.

So then editing *scratch* should generate lock-steal queries?  And
attempting to exit Emacs should have to prompt about overwriting a more
recent version of a file the user has -never visited-?  To me the implicit
persistence (or "invisible" saving) just sounds confusing.

Davis

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