Re: setenv

[Thomas F. Burdick]

david@desjardins.org (David desJardins) writes:

> Thomas F. Burdick <tfb@sandstorm.OCF.Berkeley.EDU> writes:
> > Not terribly serious, but *really* annoying.  Losing a week's worth of
> > state because Emacs crashed because it didn't update its environment
> > is no fun.  Not being able to work around it is worse.
> 
> I don't understand what you are losing when Emacs crashes.  If you are
> losing more than five minutes worth of work, I think you are doing
> something wrong.  That's what backups and autosave files are for.  When
> the power goes out, do you also lose a week's work?

Not work, but state.  All my open buffers, the state of the Elisp
image, my open inferior processes, their state, etc.  I would refer to
losing a week's worth of work as "serious".  A week's worth of state
is "annoying".