Re: undo-kill-buffer

[Aaron Maxwell]

On Tuesday 24 October 2006 16:43, Miles Bader wrote:
> Aaron Maxwell <address@hidden> writes:
> > Hi, Does anyone know of an existing emacs function that will undo a
> > kill-buffer command?  So like, if the user issues C-x k and then suddenly
> Do you notice this happening often (that you mistakenly kill a buffer)?

Yeah, all the time :)

> I've certainly done such a thing before, but I think not very often, to
> the point where I just lump it in with other random dumb things I do
> occasionally.

> [One problem with the idea of saving killed buffers is memory it would
> consume -- saving to temp files seems too heavyweight for rarely needed
> functionality.  

True.

> I suppose one could limit the number of undoable 
> buffer-kills, and perhaps more importantly, only save the contents of
> killed buffers under a certain size (my impression is that very large
> buffers tend to be programmatic output and the like, and maybe less
> valuable in some sense).]

Those are both excellent ideas.

>
> -Miles