From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to make the "file has auto save data..." message unskippable?
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:35:55 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <h2uqbt$h0g$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24345123.post@talk.nabble.com>
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Nobuko Three wrote:
> I open a file foo.txt and then my emacs displays the message:
>
> foo.txt has auto save data; consider M-x recover-this-file
>
> in the echo area, but the message rarely catches my attention because I
> quickly start editing the file and that makes the message disappear before I
> notice it.
>
> 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?
>
> One idea is to make emacs change its background color whenever it echoes
> such message. Even if you miss the message, you will always notice the
> changed background color which reminds you to check the *Message* buffer.
>
> Is there a hook I can use for this idea?
Here's a start (recover-this-file-find-file-hook.el attached).
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-07 6:35 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
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 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
[not found] <mailman.1874.1246814962.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-05 21:49 ` how to make the "file has auto save data..." message unskippable? Colin S. Miller
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