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Subject: Re: new `save-some-buffers' for files.el
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From: Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com>
Date: 20 Jun 1997 12:57:09 -0400
In-Reply-To: Kyle Jones's message of "Fri, 20 Jun 1997 11:33:29 -0400 (EDT)"
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Kyle Jones writes:
> Hrvoje Niksic writes:

>> Will this patch (to be applied on top of the ones before) make you
>> happier?

> No.  The feeling I have is best described as "looks right, smells 
> wrong."  I rarely ignore these feelings when writing my own code,
> but this is not my code.

I agree with Kyle; I have a funny feeling about this.

I don't think that there is anything conceptually wrong, except that
this reminds me reversing the video when reading in the password.

Just seeing the buffer that I may be saving may not be nearly enough.
Generally, I know what is in a buffer by name, and if I do not, I will
need to do more than statically look at one screenful of that buffer.

While the idea is a neat concept, I think that it doesn't do enough to
be really useful.  On the other hand, something that does enough will be 
doing too much.

I think Kyle summarized it best.

-- 
Colin

