Re: plain old draft saving

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 04:25:13 +0800 jidanni@jidanni.org wrote: 

j> OK I will now do C-x C-s in confidence.

>>>>>> "TZ" == Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>>>> An unsent message does not need to be saved explicitly.
j> Does too if you don't want some unknown state on the disks in the case
j> there's a nuclear power outage, etc.

...and if you get attacked by a BEAR during the NUCLEAR power outage,
you will LOSE your message!  Oh no!

TZ> he wants the documentation clarified.
j> Yes please do fix them.

Sorry, I don't think it needs to be fixed.  If you disagree, at least
make the effort to write a proposed replacement.

TZ> Also his comment of "what [if] you just want to save it" is directly
TZ> answered by my comment.  You don't "just" want to save a message.  You
TZ> either save it as a draft with `C-c C-d' or you send it with `C-c C-c'.
TZ> Mentioning `C-x C-s' would IMO just confuse the user and serve no
TZ> practical purpose because the unsent message is already autosaved as a
TZ> draft.

j> But not at every moment.

True.  That would be silly.

j> Back in high school we learned "use ^S to save your file often" back
j> in MSDOS or something.  Can you believe that gnus lacks documentation
j> on how to do that (without side effects).  I mean I want to go to the
j> washroom. I would like to save my work first, without leaving it up
j> to the component that makes the #files#.

I still don't think Gnus needs to document trivia.

Ted