From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: bug#8300: save-some-buffers no longer asks user about each one
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:46:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874o6h1w7q.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8762qyeg72.fsf@jidanni.org> (jidanni@jidanni.org's message of "Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:41:37 +0800")
jidanni@jidanni.org writes:
> Lards> I'm proposing to auto-read the dribble file if
> That you found a dribble file means the user did not quit out properly.
> Any auto reading will deny the user of his last chance to stop data
> loss.
Yeah, I'm kind of leery of this too.
The most common case for me for wanting to ignore the dribble file is
because something has gone horribly wrong (I've done something that I
didn't intend to do in some bad way), and at that point I often end up
killing Emacs. Sometimes whatever I was doing blocks so that it's not
easy to get to a point where I can do Q.
The most common case for me getting this prompt is when I accidentally
have two copies of Gnus running (usually because I start one remotely from
some other location without realizing that I already had one running
locally), in which case I want the prompt because it lets me go kill the
other one before I tell the new one to read the dribble file and proceed.
I can manually delete the dribble file in that case, but I've always liked
having the prompt. It's an opportunity to stop and think about why
there's a dribble file.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-01 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-20 5:02 jidanni
2011-03-20 10:11 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-03-20 11:09 ` David Engster
2011-03-20 11:36 ` jidanni
2011-03-20 11:33 ` R. Fourquet
2011-03-20 11:44 ` jidanni
2011-03-20 11:59 ` David Engster
2011-03-20 12:16 ` jidanni
2011-03-20 12:45 ` David Engster
2011-03-29 18:33 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-29 18:37 ` Robert Pluim
2011-03-29 18:41 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-30 11:30 ` Dave Goldberg
2011-03-30 18:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-31 4:40 ` Robert Pluim
2011-04-01 4:41 ` jidanni
2011-04-01 21:46 ` Russ Allbery [this message]
2011-04-02 21:39 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-04-04 13:45 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-04-12 16:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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