From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78030 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: bug#8300: save-some-buffers no longer asks user about each one Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 12:59:22 +0100 Message-ID: <87ipvehujp.fsf@randomsample.de> References: <8739mi9gcx.fsf@gmail.com> <87pqpmxbgp.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300622425 12642 80.91.229.12 (20 Mar 2011 12:00:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 12:00:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: fourquet.d@gmail.com, deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com, 8300@debbugs.gnu.org, ding@gnus.org To: jidanni@jidanni.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26341=ding+2Daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Mar 20 13:00:20 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 1Q1HIv-0005QU-4o for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:00:17 +0100 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 1Q1HIu-0004OY-Gs for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 07:00:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q1HIt-0004OS-2F for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 07:00:15 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q1HIr-0007W3-Ib for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 07:00:14 -0500 Original-Received: from v3-1008.vxen.de ([79.140.41.8]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q1HIq-00073i-QQ for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:00:12 +0100 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=engster.org; s=a; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=jN0fcPJky3DxCP0Q97qDFKtM+Mz9Zfbb4DaeazEHvzw=; b=TiUZCWWF91lfwufY1uvG6P6+04vfpgt2rB5iLixagf2dggslf1nY24TbBIWXHzvJ3J/RFVCENSJxuINswBnHj7nd/OR11qXWZWCeEdr/gjkfxBIiUpMiTFjs9qkpor6W; Original-Received: from dslc-082-083-042-197.pools.arcor-ip.net ([82.83.42.197] helo=spaten) by v3-1008.vxen.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q1HIp-0006DS-NT; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:00:11 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87pqpmxbgp.fsf@jidanni.org> (jidanni@jidanni.org's message of "Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:44:54 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110014 (No Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Mail-Copies-To: never Mail-Followup-To: jidanni@jidanni.org, fourquet.d@gmail.com, deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com, 8300@debbugs.gnu.org, ding@gnus.org X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78030 Archived-At: 'jidanni' writes: > I think the documentation should stay put. > It is only some kiddie MicroSoft system that insists it is smarter than > you and saves things just because you ask. What if the cops sent a car > just because you called 911 and even before they asked what the problem was. save-some-buffers gets called a lot when you use packages which call external tools (like AucTeX, compile, magit, etc.), and people were annoyed to get asked every time if the dribble file should be saved, so in the end Lars decided to set buffer-save-without-query. I think this is a very minor issue (and hence perfect for bikeshedding, strange analogies and MS bashing). -David