Re: plain old draft saving

[jidanni@jidanni.org]

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.
Does too if you don't want some unknown state on the disks in the case
there's a nuclear power outage, etc.
TZ> he wants the documentation clarified.
Yes please do fix them.
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.
But not at every moment.
Back in high school we learned "use ^S to save your file often" back in
MSDOS or something.
Can you believe that gnus lacks documentation on how to do that (without
side effects).
I mean I want to go to the washroom. I would like to save my work first,
without leaving it up to the component that makes the #files#.