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Re: Scratch buffer annoyance
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Scratch buffer annoyance |
Date: |
Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:12:49 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
> This recent change leads to annoying behavior:
> 2007-07-02 Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> * startup.el (command-line): Set buffer-offer-save in *scratch*
> and enable auto-save in it.
> After this was checked in, I noticed Emacs kept asking me if I wanted
> to save the *scratch* buffer upon each exit. That was annoying, but
> tolerable, so I just answered "no". A while later, I happened to do
> an `ls' in my home directory, and found it cluttered with 10-20
> auto-save files:
> #*scratch*#10823QZW#
> #*scratch*#220140RY#
> #*scratch*#72802aU#
> ...
> At the very least, we should (i) offer an option to adopt the Emacs 22
> behavior for the *scratch* buffer, i.e. with buffer-offer-save and
> auto-save disabled, and (ii) delete the auto-save file if the user
> answers "no" when asked if *scratch* should be saved.
And also, it shouldn't be saved in the home directory but somewhere in the
.emacs.d directory.
Stefan