From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
Subject: Re: Is this a buglet.. nndrafts:draft renegades
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 12:06:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3bsihi1u1.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ady2qo6h.fsf@harpo.homeip.net> (Samuel Padgett's message of "Sun, 04 Nov 2001 15:24:54 -0500")
Samuel Padgett <spadgett1@nc.rr.com> wrote:
> "Matt Armstrong" <matt+dated+1007493620.315b12@lickey.com> writes:
>> Samuel Padgett <spadgett1@nc.rr.com> writes:
>>> But what if I accidentally kill a buffer while composing a message I
>>> haven't saved? There would be no way to recover the message.
>>
>> Emacs will prompt you with "Buffer X modified; kill anyway?" -- I
>> think that is good enough.
>
> No, I disagree. If I do this to a C source file, I can always recover
> my changes using the autosave file.
No, you can't. That autosave file is deleted when you kill the
buffer. At least, that's what I see. Maybe this is a result of
something weird in my .emacs, but I'm not seeing it.
It will always be possible for you to shoot yourself in the foot. Any
tool that makes that impossible also makes it impossible to do
anything useful.
paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-05 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-02 21:29 Harry Putnam
2001-11-02 21:46 ` Matt Armstrong
2001-11-03 1:06 ` Harry Putnam
2001-11-03 14:23 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-11-03 20:29 ` Russ Allbery
2001-11-03 2:08 ` Russ Allbery
2001-11-03 3:01 ` Harry Putnam
2001-11-03 3:06 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2001-11-03 3:19 ` Samuel Padgett
2001-11-03 14:25 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-11-03 14:56 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2001-11-03 15:54 ` Samuel Padgett
2001-11-03 19:32 ` Matt Armstrong
2001-11-03 21:10 ` Matt Armstrong
2001-11-03 22:25 ` Samuel Padgett
2001-11-03 23:47 ` Harry Putnam
2001-11-04 0:16 ` Samuel Padgett
2001-11-04 1:17 ` Harry Putnam
2001-11-04 1:47 ` Samuel Padgett
2001-11-04 2:13 ` Samuel Padgett
2001-11-03 23:40 ` Harry Putnam
2001-11-05 10:53 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-11-05 16:22 ` Harry Putnam
2001-11-05 17:30 ` Samuel Padgett
2001-11-05 19:21 ` Harry Putnam
2001-11-05 17:04 ` Matt Armstrong
2001-11-05 17:26 ` Samuel Padgett
2001-11-05 18:21 ` Matt Armstrong
2001-11-06 9:29 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-11-06 14:05 ` Samuel Padgett
2001-11-06 15:41 ` Harry Putnam
2001-11-07 18:13 ` Samuel Padgett
2001-11-07 19:03 ` Harry Putnam
2001-11-07 22:21 ` Samuel Padgett
2001-11-04 18:22 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-11-04 18:31 ` Samuel Padgett
2001-11-04 18:46 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-11-04 19:20 ` Matt Armstrong
2001-11-04 20:24 ` Samuel Padgett
2001-11-05 17:06 ` Paul Jarc [this message]
2001-11-05 17:19 ` Matt Armstrong
2001-11-05 17:48 ` Samuel Padgett
2001-11-05 17:22 ` Samuel Padgett
2001-11-05 17:32 ` Paul Jarc
2001-11-05 17:56 ` Samuel Padgett
2001-11-03 15:40 ` Samuel Padgett
2001-11-03 3:56 ` Russ Allbery
2001-11-03 16:22 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-11-03 16:20 ` Kai Großjohann
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