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From: David Bakhash <cadet@MIT.EDU>
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hey,

 >  > 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.

sounds like you have many good points.  I think that is why this is
considered beta and yet untested.  Let's give it a shot and then deal
with people's reactions to it and possible future bugs.  I imagine that
it will indeed need some fixing, but if it smells right, then it's
probably not shit.  I thought that's the point of xemacs-beta.  Anyway,
I asked my friend (C programmer) about it last night and he said (quote) 
"No F___ing way!  don't do it!" arguing that when he does :

> M-x compile

it asks about unsaved files b4 compiling.  He said that he didn't want
to see buffers cycling around.  I thought that he was just against it
b/c of what he was used to seeing.  I disagreed, and told him to just
(customizingly) turn it off, since Hrvoje added the custom variable.
Anyway, after a while even he agreed that over-all it was better since
he also has lots of unsaved buffers b4 doing C-x C-c, and it would save
him time and pain to see what they're asking him to save instead of C-g, 
then C-x b, then do the C-x C-c all over again 6 or so times.

dave

