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Re: Scratch buffer annoyance
From: |
Leo |
Subject: |
Re: Scratch buffer annoyance |
Date: |
Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:37:33 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110007 Emacs/23.0.0 (20070710) Fedora 7 (gnu/linux) |
On 2007-07-06 01:06 +0100, Chong Yidong wrote:
> 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.
I agree 100%.
This new behavior is just annoying.
Everybody knows what *scratch* means. Why would someone want to save
things in scratch? Or why would they put important things in *scratch*
in the first place?
--
Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com> (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)
- Scratch buffer annoyance, Chong Yidong, 2007/07/05
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Stefan Monnier, 2007/07/06
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance,
Leo <=
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, David Reitter, 2007/07/15
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Karl Fogel, 2007/07/15
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2007/07/16
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/17
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, David Reitter, 2007/07/17
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Tassilo Horn, 2007/07/17
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Johan Bockgård, 2007/07/17