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lose lose lose lose lose

#66
From: Kyle Jones
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 19:47
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Jamie Zawinski writes:
 > I had an emacs sitting in VM on my terminal at home.  I went in to work,
 > read mail there, came home, and typed "g" without remembering to quit VM
 > first.  Guess what, it got my new mail and saved my inbox without ever
 > noticing that the version on disk was newer than the version it had in
 > the buffer.

When you do a `g' VM does not save the old INBOX buffer over the
disk copy of INBOX.  It appends whatever it finds in the your
spool mailbox to the disk copy of INBOX and the buffer copy of
INBOX.  Two separate operations, so the contents don't mix.  If
you hit make changes and hit `S' after the `g' then you do lose.
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From: kyle@wendy-fate.uu.net (Kyle Jones)
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 15:47:03 -0400
Message-ID: <9208151947.AA13575@wendy-fate.UU.NET>
Subject: lose lose lose lose lose
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