From: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: VanL <van@scratch.space>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: *scratch* buffer documentation
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 13:24:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJnXXogsFbD3_UZHfcZGQWSS8581G0=Dx0WzFPgqVUqgoLzS4A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83eewpq2w6.fsf@gnu.org>
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Jumping in after having read only the last few post in the thread.
How about "nonpersistent"?
/john
On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 9:06 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > 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.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-27 18:24 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
2019-12-27 18:24 ` John Yates [this message]
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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