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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>
Cc: org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
	Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: a small remember suggestion
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:23:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2A67B1A5-2EEE-4835-883D-962E99D74877@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890903242324w536f1fd5ucf4581021f632258@mail.gmail.com>


On Mar 25, 2009, at 7:24 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote:

> What would happen then if one called remember from a previous  
> remember buffer, then saved it?

I believe this will create a new backup.

- Carsten

>
> Alan Davis
>
> "An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need  
> for one non-existent."                     ---Lord Raleigh (John  
> William Strutt), or else his son, who was also a scientist.
>
> It is undesirable to believe a proposition when
> there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
>     ---- Bertrand Russell
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:29, Carsten Dominik  
> <dominik@science.uva.nl> wrote:
> >> After that,
> >>
> >> (when (plusp number)
> >>  (message "you have %s saved remember files" number))
> >
> > Hmmm.   When should this happen?  Not after a
> > successful remember process, I'd say.....
>
> The number will usually be zero, so that is when I would do it.  Of
> course it should be combined with "successfully saved to ...".
>
> I like it after rather than before saving because, in my view, we want
> to limit the amount of attention required between "have an idea" and
> "saved the idea".
>
> Perhaps there are other times for it, but then would work for me.
>
> --
> Myalgic encephalomyelitis denialism is causing death (decades early;
> Jason et al. 2006) and severe suffering (worse than nearly all other
> diseases studied; e.g. Schweitzer et al. 1995) and grossly corrupting
> science.  http://www.meactionuk.org.uk/What_Is_ME_What_Is_CFS.htm
>
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      reply	other threads:[~2009-03-25  8:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-21 19:28 a small remember suggestion Samuel Wales
     [not found] ` <7bef1f890903211425p1b1329ebxd42b3d7c1a3a77d7@mail.gmail.com>
2009-03-22  2:01   ` Alan E. Davis
2009-03-22 15:16     ` Carsten Dominik
2009-03-22 17:03       ` Richard Riley
2009-03-22 20:36       ` Alan E. Davis
2009-03-24  3:29       ` Samuel Wales
2009-03-24  3:42         ` Samuel Wales
2009-03-24 11:29           ` Carsten Dominik
2009-03-24 11:29         ` Carsten Dominik
2009-03-24 14:22           ` Alan E. Davis
2009-03-25  8:22             ` Carsten Dominik
2009-03-25  4:46           ` Samuel Wales
2009-03-25  6:24             ` Alan E. Davis
2009-03-25  8:23               ` Carsten Dominik [this message]

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