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From: jbw@bucsb.UUCP (jbw)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Re: Evanescent messages in minibuffer
Summary: inews garbage
Message-ID: <2409@bucsb.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 89 20:27:05 GMT
References: <8903191444.AA26668@odyssee.odyssee.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells)
Followup-To: gnu.emacs.bug
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
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pinard@odyssee.UUCP writes:
>In GNU Emacs 18.53.1 of Sat Mar  4 1989 on odyssee (berkeley-unix)
>Once in a while, when I am typing in the mini-buffer, I just perceive
>a message that is displayed and goes away immediately (probably
>because I am typing).  The message does not stay long enough for
>having any chance to read it (despite I can catch a few words
>sometimes, maybe like "...not saved because..." or "...buffer has
>shrunk...").
[stuff deleted]
>Is there a way to read back these evanescent messages?

The message is:

	Buffer foo has shrunk a lot; not autosaving it

No, there is no way to reread such messages without modifying the C
code.

I believe that this is a bug, not a feature.  Check the source code in
src/fileio.c to see if a switch has been added to turn off this
"feature" in version 18.53.  I'm still using 18.52.

--
Joe Wells
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