From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: VanL <van@scratch.space>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: *scratch* buffer documentation
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 16:06:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83eewpq2w6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m24kxmt379.fsf@scratch.space> (message from VanL on Fri, 27 Dec 2019 22:31:22 +1100)
> From: VanL <van@scratch.space>
> Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 22:31:22 +1100
>
> >> When I read "provisory" I have alarm bells ringing and I want to
> >> know more, so I check the rest of the documentation and indeed, I
> >> find the kill command and that confirms that buffers are indeed
> >> provisory and need to be saved to a *permanent* file to have their
> >> contents archived.
>
> The intro to RPi4B uses the words 'volatile' and 'non-volatile' memory.
Buffers aren't "volatile", either, they don't evaporate unless killed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-27 14:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-24 23:58 *scratch* buffer documentation Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-25 1:24 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-12-25 1:44 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-25 14:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-26 0:54 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-26 2:29 ` arthur miller
2019-12-26 3:00 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-26 3:27 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-12-26 5:19 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-26 5:20 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-26 16:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-26 17:15 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-26 17:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-12-26 18:14 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-26 20:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-27 1:03 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-27 8:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-27 9:12 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-27 9:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-27 9:44 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-12-27 11:31 ` VanL
2019-12-27 14:06 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-12-27 18:24 ` John Yates
2019-12-27 18:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-27 16:12 ` Drew Adams
2019-12-27 17:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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