Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!bu-cs!bucsb!jbw
From: jbw@bucsb.UUCP (Joe Wells)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Re: autosave bug
Message-ID: <2035@bucsb.UUCP>
Date: 30 Sep 88 19:52:15 GMT
References: <8809291455.AA03009@uunet.UU.NET>
Reply-To: jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells)
Followup-To: gnu.emacs.bug
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Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
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In article <8809291455.AA03009@uunet.UU.NET> kjones@talos.UUCP writes:
>GNU Emacs 18.52:
[stuff deleted]
>I'd like to this check removed.  I understand the reasoning behind the
>heuristic but I think Emacs has enough revision safeguards that we
>could heave this one.  Besides that, those "buffer has shrunk a lot"
>messages are an irritant.

I agree completely.  I also don't think this is an improvement.  When
I first saw this message, I couldn't read the entire message, instead
it would flash briefly.  This is because I use the arrow keys on my
terminal which produce 5 character sequences.  I also have
auto-save-interval set to 50.  So I was getting this message fairly
often.  I ended up spending a lot of time tracking down this "bug"
only to find out it was a "feature".

Joe Wells
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