From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A wish, a plea Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:57:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4679F561.4030600@hacksaw.org> <49750.128.165.123.18.1182451810.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182452243 32383 80.91.229.12 (21 Jun 2007 18:57:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:57:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Hacksaw To: herring@lanl.gov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 21 20:57:20 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I1RqE-00069m-Bj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:57:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I1RqD-00031c-NP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:57:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I1RqA-0002zC-9C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:57:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I1Rq7-0002vB-Lj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:57:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I1Rq7-0002v8-Je for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:57:07 -0400 Original-Received: from bc.sympatico.ca ([209.226.175.184] helo=tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I1Rq7-00015b-3p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:57:07 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.53.192.71]) by tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20070621185704.RIWI875.tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home> for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:57:04 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id AC805803F; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:57:04 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <49750.128.165.123.18.1182451810.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (Davis Herring's message of "Thu\, 21 Jun 2007 11\:50\:10 -0700 \(PDT\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Solaris 8 (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:73545 Archived-At: >> But I wasn't in programming mode, so I was in scratch, and lost >> everything I was writing, because scratch isn't backed up by anything. > The simple answer here is M-x auto-save-mode. You can of course put > (auto-save-mode 1) in .emacs, since *scratch* is current when it runs. It may work. > Actually getting rid of *scratch* is somewhat harder. Maybe an alternative is to make it read-only. Or maybe add a first-change-hook that requests a file name from the user? Stefan