Re: Short explanation for & in key ! of dired

[David Kastrup]

Lynbech Christian <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>> "joakim" == joakim  <address@hidden> writes:
>
> joakim> Exactly my observation too. But sometimes you still need to see the
> joakim> output when debugging, often post-mortem, so to speak.
>
> i would like to add a "me too" here.
>
> I am also not interested in output for GUI apps, *except* when something
> goes wrong, then I often find that I wished for the output.
>
> A possible middle ground would be to redirect output to a temporary
> file. then it will not affect emacs and still be available for
> debugging, should the need arise.

One temporary non-saved buffer for all that does not accumulate more
than a specified maximum (similar to *Messages*) should be fine, I
think.

-- 
David Kastrup