Re: <filename> changed on disk; really edit the buffer?

[Stephan Lukits]

Richard Stallman schrieb:
> [...]
>       The most attractive solution would be
>     to get rid of it.
>
> Maybe we should do that, but before we do, we should ask the users
> whether they mind.  Maybe some people have good reasons to use it.
>
> Stephen, what was your motive for using it?

If I work on a tex-Document with some includes and some graphics, a
directory can get pretty crowded, thus I don't want to have further
files which are pretty useless to me.  The only useful situation I can
imagine for having a separate file for auto-saving is if the System,
Machine or Application crashes while emacs does autosaving.
This sounds rather unlikely to me.  Further more I do always backup my
Work after I finished a days work on to different media thus I can
afford the risk which auto-saving in the file in use causes.  But
I wouldn't mind if this function disappears.  If it would work it would
just be a "nice to have".

best regards
Stephan