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Re: C-x C-c needs to say more than just "save file...?"
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Dan Jacobson |
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Re: C-x C-c needs to say more than just "save file...?" |
Date: |
10 Jan 2001 10:22:41 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 |
>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
Eli> On 7 Jan 2001, Dan Jacobson wrote:
>> >> -querying for confirmation of quitting was the default behavior
>> in >> Emacs (perhaps too annoying for many expert users),
>>
Eli> How about popping the question only if the number of buffers
Eli> exceeds some predefined value?
>> here one surely cannot make value judgments, as one tiny buffer
>> with the valuable info might be much more important then 25 big
>> other buffers, even though there's no file attached to the buffer.
Eli> How is this relevant? Emacs asks you about unsaved buffers
Eli> before it exist, so no data is ever lost, no matter how many
Eli> buffers did you have.
Eli> The rationale for basing the decision on the number of buffers is
Eli> the amount of time it takes to reproduce your session: visit all
Eli> the files, set point and mark in each buffer where you left them,
Eli> etc. (There are features in Emacs to make this very easy and
Eli> automatic, but they are not turned on by default.) The effort
Eli> required for this is highly correlated with the number of buffers
Eli> in the session.
Often I find myself with say, a *Shell command output* buffer with
results of say 30 minuties of tinkering with various ESC !
commands... sure, one would say if I intended to save the command line
I slowly refined thru repeated ESC !, I should have edited a file say,
called script.sh, and used the convenience of M-x compile... however,
things do not always start out that way... one starts tinkering, says
"hey, this is signifigant, I ought to start saving this to a
file... ok, I will, just give me one more minute here" and zap: a
misplaced C-x C-c throws it all away. OK, this is just an example...
Hmmm, maybe the user, um, me, should decide eariler what he intends to
save. OK, never mind :-)
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Re: C-x C-c needs to say more than just "save file...?", Charles Sebold, 2001/01/03
Re: C-x C-c needs to say more than just "save file...?", Raymond Zeitler, 2001/01/03