From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13737 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Zander Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: auto-save files, why? Date: 30 Jan 1998 09:38:09 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87wwfh7tha.fsf@wsuse5.mckesson.com> References: <873ei7tc45.fsf@wsuse5.mckesson.com> Reply-To: stephen.zander@interlock.mckesson.com NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153048 10837 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:30:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:30:48 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA10765 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 09:42:37 -0800 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (root@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA14469 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 11:39:53 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAH25608; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 11:39:51 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 30 Jan 1998 11:39:12 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA25593 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 11:39:03 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 26422 invoked by uid 504); 30 Jan 1998 17:39:01 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 26419 invoked from network); 30 Jan 1998 17:39:01 -0000 Original-Received: from interlock.mckesson.com (199.221.43.2) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 30 Jan 1998 17:39:00 -0000 Original-Received: by interlock.mckesson.com id AA16206 (InterLock SMTP Gateway 3.0 for ding@gnus.org); Fri, 30 Jan 1998 09:38:59 -0800 Original-Received: by interlock.mckesson.com (Internal Mail Agent-1); Fri, 30 Jan 1998 09:38:59 -0800 Original-To: "(ding)" In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of "30 Jan 1998 11:01:27 -0500" Original-Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13737 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13737 Stainless Steel Rat writes: > You see, even if that buffer is saved, as long as Gnus is alive that buffer > is still "open" as far as Emacs is concerned. If you quit Emacs at that > point it will update the buffer's associated autosave file and exit. Next > time you start Gnus, Emacs will see the autosave file. And this explains my original problem; I was dropping back to the *Group* buffer but not quiting from there.... thanks for the info! -- Stephen --- "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me