The article is a little GUI centric, but you can do this sort of thing in non-GUI apps too. How many of you emacs users idly press "C-x C-s" when you are sitting around thinking? I know I do it constantly. It feels good, and the only side effect is the reassuring message "(No changes need to be saved)"
Yup. I do the same though I only end up annoying myself, much like the above select-and-deselect-text posters when they're on nytimes.com, when I'm on the scratch buffer and I keep getting the "File to save in:" prompt.
