Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 11:20:12 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: John Covici <covici AT ccs DOT covici DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: problem with Emacs 20.2 Under Dos Box in Win95
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On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, John Covici wrote:

> >Do you *really* want your unsaved edits to vanish when you kill a
> >modified buffer?
> 
> But if I kill the modified buffer and answer yes, it means I want my
> edits to go away

Well, with all due respect, Emacs doesn't believe you when you say you
don't care about your edits.  I have seen a lot of cases where people
would change their minds when it was too late.

Anyway, this is how Emacs is supposed to work, it's just that the
documentation of that variable didn't say it explicitly (it will say
so in the next release).  If you want to have an option that would
nuke the auto-save file also, please write to the Emacs maintainers
at bug-gnu-emacs AT gnu DOT org and suggest to introduce such a change.

> otherwise the autosave feature is very nice!

It's not only nice, it's a life-saver!  I have my init file set
`auto-save-timeout' variable to 15 seconds, so even if I stop typing
for a short while, Emacs auto-saves almost immediately.  This is a
must in a country where power shortages is a matter of habit.