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From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
To: GNU Emacs List <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: how to make the "file has auto save data..." message	unskippable?
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:14:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A51EA8D.9090503@mousecar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r5wuxk7g.fsf@ambire.localdomain>


On 07/06/2009 04:57 AM Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
> () Nobuko Three <nbko3@yahoo.com>
> () Sun, 5 Jul 2009 10:29:13 -0700 (PDT)
> 
>    Normally after emacs is crashed, you know you need to use M-x
>    recover-session, but it could happen that you go to lunch after
>    crash, you come back, you start emacs again, you forget to do
>    recover-session and open foo.bar and then also miss the
>    "foo.txt has auto save data..." message.
> 
>    How do you deal with this problem?
> 
> Go to lunch before the crash!
> Think faster but type slower!
> Or, (setq message-log-max t),
> + `C-h e' every now and then.
> 
> thi

In buffers which have auto-save data I'd like to see an orange
background.  In addition, I'd like to hear a beep when I try to type
into that buffer with the standard message/prompt in the minibuffer that
there's auto-save data... should I pull it in or discard it.







  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-06 12:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-05 17:29 how to make the "file has auto save data..." message unskippable? Nobuko Three
2009-07-06  8:57 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2009-07-06 12:14   ` ken [this message]
2009-07-08  6:09     ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-07-06 18:58   ` Sean Sieger
2009-07-06 19:19     ` how to make the "file has auto save data..." messageunskippable? Drew Adams
2009-07-06 20:04       ` Sean Sieger
2009-07-07  6:35 ` how to make the "file has auto save data..." message unskippable? Kevin Rodgers
     [not found] <mailman.1874.1246814962.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-05 21:49 ` Colin S. Miller

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