Re: What's the problem? (Was: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs?)

[Martin Stjernholm]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

> So that if autosave starts saving a file and is half through when I
> decide that the first half of the file is junk I won't need and delete
> it, Emacs finds itself having saved more than enough material and
> stops writing, never saving the remaining _important_ part of the
> file?

That wouldn't happen if a marker is used to point to the beginning of
the unsaved part of the buffer.