Re: A wish, a plea

[Sascha Wilde]

Hacksaw <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> My preference would be for scratch to actually save everything. Don't
> treat it like mere workspace to be tossed when you figure something
> out, treat it as a fairly limitless notebook in which you can record
> your ideas, try out things, and hopefully never lose anything you
> didn't explicitly erase. I would make it autosave fairly often, like
> after an eval, as well as after 250 characters, and such
[...]

If I understand your idea right, that would mean making no changes to
the semantics of *scratch* at all, with the one exception of
preserving the content of *scratch* between Emacs sessions?

I like that idea very much!  

And I think it should make everybody happy: those who are worried,
that they might write something important in *scratch* and exit Emacs
without saving could simply restart Emacs again without having lost
anything -- and people like me could keep using *scratch* like they
are used to, without being annoyed by questions about saving changed
content of *scratch*.  The only change for folks like me would be,
that they would want to discard the content of *scratch* from time to
time, but C-x h C-w isn't that hard to type...  (or it could be
arranged in .emacs for those, who want the exact current behavior
back).

sascha
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