From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Book writing mode? Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 07:35:05 +0900 Organization: FusionGOL - Global Online Japan Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87n03u95ra.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085615999 10902 80.91.224.253 (26 May 2004 23:59:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 23:59:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 27 01:59:55 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BT8JP-00058l-00 for ; Thu, 27 May 2004 01:59:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BT7BY-0002RT-Qx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 May 2004 18:47:44 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!nntp.gol.com!203.216.70.8.MISMATCH!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: yokohama2-61-203-152-157.ap.0038.net Original-X-Trace: nnrp.gol.com 1085610906 19087 61.203.152.157 (26 May 2004 22:35:06 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@gol.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 22:35:06 +0000 (UTC) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Cancel-Lock: sha1:zcDxHzkLqbakZs071HagrrGEzp0= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:123502 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:18801 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:18801 David Kastrup writes: > I've had Emacs (mostly the developer version) crash on me quite a bit. > But I can't remember the last time it did serious damage (auto-save > files exist, and since they are in ASCII, "inconsistent" documents are > easily repaired again). This the key for me: crashes in Emacs are almost _never_ catastrophic, merely annoying (and usually only a little annoying too -- typically when I recover a file after crash, it's only missing a few words; my biggest gripe is losing my gdb state if I was using gdb-mode). -Miles -- ((lambda (x) (list x x)) (lambda (x) (list x x)))