From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Stjernholm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What's the problem? (Was: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs?) Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 23:09:22 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <5bfzfv7yi5.fsf@lister.roxen.com> References: <20031117040607.C6C5D79B72@server2.messagingengine.com> <87ekvpx18d.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> <4nad6cikxy.fsf@holmes.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nllpt3hr3.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <5bad69zd43.fsf@lister.roxen.com> <4noeuon378.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <4ny8tsgxy6.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nhe0ggv0u.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nk75bwjaf.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nsmjv8d32.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nu14b6q33.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070922122 31750 80.91.224.253 (8 Dec 2003 22:22:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 22:22:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 08 23:21:57 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ATTlN-0006S2-00 for ; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 23:21:57 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ATTlN-0001lr-00 for ; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 23:21:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ATUaK-0006T9-Bs for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 18:14:36 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ATUYt-00062g-Gq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 18:13:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ATUYG-0005E7-W6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 18:13:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.52.182.190] (helo=mail.roxen.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ATUXl-0004kw-3i; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 18:11:57 -0500 Original-Received: by mail.roxen.com (Postfix, from userid 52) id E565E9A85; Mon, 8 Dec 2003 23:09:26 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from lister.roxen.com (lister.roxen.com [194.52.182.147]) by mail.roxen.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E789E9AC0; Mon, 8 Dec 2003 23:09:21 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from mast by lister.roxen.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1ATTZC-0007no-00; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 23:09:22 +0100 Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: (David Kastrup's message of "08 Dec 2003 21:56:56 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/20.7 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:18572 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18572 David Kastrup wrote: > So that if autosave starts saving a file and is half through when I > decide that the first half of the file is junk I won't need and delete > it, Emacs finds itself having saved more than enough material and > stops writing, never saving the remaining _important_ part of the > file? That wouldn't happen if a marker is used to point to the beginning of the unsaved part of the buffer.