From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephan Lukits Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: changed on disk; really edit the buffer? Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:36:33 +0100 Organization: FernUni Hagen Message-ID: References: <4739B12F.7000400@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195572997 27993 80.91.229.12 (20 Nov 2007 15:36:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:36:37 +0000 (UTC) To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 20 16:36:43 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IuV9F-0006Yd-LS for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:36:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IuV91-0002El-JA for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:36:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IuV87-0001f6-Aa for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:35:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IuV85-0001dW-Mj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:35:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IuV85-0001d9-HF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:35:13 -0500 Original-Received: from moderators.individual.net ([130.133.4.7]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IuV84-0005ld-6B for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:35:13 -0500 Original-Received: from cl-mailhost.fernuni-hagen.de ([132.176.114.188]) by moderators.individual.net (Exim 4.67) for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org with esmtp (envelope-from ) id <1IuV7p-0008Ud-E4>; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:34:57 +0100 Original-Received: from tamarack.fernuni-hagen.de ([132.176.114.82]) by cl-mailhost.FernUni-Hagen.de with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1IuV7p-0002w1-5d for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:34:57 +0100 Original-Received: from tamarack.fernuni-hagen.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tamarack.fernuni-hagen.de (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.5) with ESMTP id lAKFYumr005685 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:34:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: (from news@localhost) by tamarack.fernuni-hagen.de (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.5/Submit) id lAKFYufr005684 for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:34:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: stz-eschw-67.fernuni-hagen.de Original-X-Trace: tamarack.fernuni-hagen.de 1195572896 5682 132.176.141.67 (20 Nov 2007 15:34:56 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: newsadmin@fernuni-hagen.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:34:56 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) In-Reply-To: X-prewhitelist: your reply will pass through without greylisting X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:17022 Archived-At: Richard Stallman schrieb: > [...] > The most attractive solution would be > to get rid of it. > > Maybe we should do that, but before we do, we should ask the users > whether they mind. Maybe some people have good reasons to use it. > > Stephen, what was your motive for using it? > If I work on a tex-Document with some includes and some graphics, a directory can get pretty crowded, thus I don't want to have further files which are pretty useless to me. The only useful situation I can imagine for having a separate file for auto-saving is if the System, Machine or Application crashes while emacs does autosaving. This sounds rather unlikely to me. Further more I do always backup my Work after I finished a days work on to different media thus I can afford the risk which auto-saving in the file in use causes. But I wouldn't mind if this function disappears. If it would work it would just be a "nice to have". best regards Stephan