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Re: autosaving shrunk buffers

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From: Joe Wells
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1991 02:35
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In article <CARLTON.91Oct4223308@husc10.harvard.edu> carlton@husc10.harvard.edu (david carlton) writes:

   How do I convince Emacs that I really want it to auto-save buffers
   which have shrunk a lot?

Not much without hacking the C source code.  When this "feature" was
introduced, I and several others complained loudly, but were ignored.  At
the very least there should be a variable to allow us to disable this
"feature".

-- 
Joe Wells <jbw@cs.bu.edu>
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From: jbw@bigbird.bu.edu (Joe Wells)
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Subject: Re: autosaving shrunk buffers
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