From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45191 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Trey Jackson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: feature request: option to be warned of article edits being discarded Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:26:33 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1023730219 31122 127.0.0.1 (10 Jun 2002 17:30:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 17:30:19 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17HSzj-00085f-00 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 19:30:19 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17HSyz-0002rs-00; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:29:33 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:29:51 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA16798 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:29:39 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 7658 invoked by alias); 10 Jun 2002 17:29:16 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 7653 invoked from network); 10 Jun 2002 17:29:16 -0000 Original-Received: from jffdns02.or.intel.com (HELO hebe.or.intel.com) (134.134.248.4) by gnus.org with SMTP; 10 Jun 2002 17:29:16 -0000 Original-Received: from ichips-ra.pdx.intel.com (ichips-ra-hme1.intel.com [10.7.4.35]) by hebe.or.intel.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/d: solo.mc,v 1.42 2002/05/23 22:21:11 root Exp $) with ESMTP id g5AHSmo07101 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 17:28:48 GMT Original-Received: from dlxc0017.pdx.intel.com (dlxc0017.pdx.intel.com [10.7.107.171]) by ichips-ra.pdx.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: internal.m4,v 1.2 1998/11/09 19:18:37 iwep Exp iwep $) with ESMTP id KAA24299 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:28:47 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: (from tjackson@localhost) by dlxc0017.pdx.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: client-ra.m4,v 1.1 1998/12/24 19:00:55 jamesw Exp jamesw $) id KAA25908 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:28:47 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: dlxc0017.pdx.intel.com: tjackson set sender to tjackson@ichips.intel.com using -f Original-To: xding@gnus.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/20.7 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Original-Lines: 28 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45191 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45191 All, I found myself editing a draft via the `gnus-summary-edit-article' (e) function, as opposed to the `gnus-draft-edit-message' function (D e). I switched back to the *Summary* buffer to refer to another article, and my edits were lost b/c the *Article* buffer was now showing the contents of a new message. This happened to me twice. And I think I've learned my lesson (only edit drafts with `D e'), but I believe that an enhancement would help alleviate this problem. Emacs generally warns me anytime I'm about to lose changes. I'd like a warning that my edits are about to be discarded and the option to save them. Perhaps when editing an article the buffer name could be changed to something different altogether (to avoid the data loss). TJ -- Trey Jackson tjackson@ichips.intel.com "A life is not important except for the impact it has on other lives." -- Jackie Robinson