From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78301 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: bug#8300: save-some-buffers no longer asks user about each one Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:46:17 -0700 Organization: The Eyrie Message-ID: <874o6h1w7q.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> References: <8762qyeg72.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301753404 22975 80.91.229.12 (2 Apr 2011 14:10:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 14:10:04 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26608@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Apr 02 16:10:00 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q61WZ-0006U8-33 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2011 16:09:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q61Vl-0004MM-Lx; Sat, 02 Apr 2011 09:09:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q61Vk-0004M7-Bo for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 02 Apr 2011 09:09:08 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q61Vj-0007Xt-2t for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 02 Apr 2011 09:09:08 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp1.stanford.edu ([171.67.219.81] helo=smtp.stanford.edu) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q61Vh-0001ma-It for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2011 16:09:05 +0200 Original-Received: from smtp.stanford.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E3C347C073 for ; Fri, 1 Apr 2011 14:46:20 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (windlord.Stanford.EDU [171.67.225.134]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.stanford.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E2DDE47C06B for ; Fri, 1 Apr 2011 14:46:17 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by windlord.stanford.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CCAEE2F482; Fri, 1 Apr 2011 14:46:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <8762qyeg72.fsf@jidanni.org> (jidanni@jidanni.org's message of "Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:41:37 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78301 Archived-At: 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)