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From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs,comp.emacs,comp.editors
Subject: How to make Emacs keep quiet?
Message-ID: <187@enea.se>
Date: 18 Aug 89 21:44:02 GMT
Followup-To: comp.editors
Organization: Enea Data AB, Sweden
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(Please respond by mail or reply to comp.editors. I don't read
gnu.emacs or comp.emacs.)

This is probably an easy RTFM question, but I'm starting to
realize that I'm not going through the Emacs-Lisp manual
until Christmas, and I'm sick'n'tired of this behaviour NOW.

Every once in a while when I'm using this editor it inter-
rupts me to tell me "Auto-saving...done", "Garbage-collection...
done". I don't want that. Auto-saving seems like a good idea
so I like to have it on, but I want it to happen QUIETLY.
  On top of all: the most common message is the fantastic
"Buffer xxxx has shrunk a lot. Not autosaving.", since I
mainly use Unix to read and write news and mail which means
that I start with a big file from which I cut everything except
that I comment. It's really a pain. Particulary on a 75/1200 line.
And I would like it to auto-save even if the buffer "has shrunk
a lot". Tell me, how do I do. The editor just can't be that
!"#$%&/(/) stupid that it is not impossible.
  I would also like to Emacs stop echoing prefix keys. It's a good
idea but it becomes absurd when your using keypad keys as prefix
keys as I do.

I have my very personal profile, so any Lisp is OK. I'm not
interested in source code changes. I'm not the only one on
the machine using GNU-Emacs. We're using 18.48 on a SUN-4.




-- 
Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
"Hey poor, you don't have to be Jesus!" - Front 242