Re: too easy to quit emacs without proper saving of gnus files

[David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:
> Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
>
>> Yes, I also think I was queried when quitting emacs from whatever the
>> current buffer was.  But OTOH, it doesn't make a big difference if you
>> are queried to load autosave files on startup or if you are queried to
>> really quit as long as nothing's lost.
>
> You're seeing the result of this change:
>
> 	* gnus-start.el (gnus-dribble-read-file): Set
> 	buffer-save-without-query, since we always want to save the dribble
> 	file, probably.
>
> The rationale for the change was that it was pointed out that if you're
> using Gnus in an Emacs where you're also doing development, `M-x
> compile' (and friends) will constantly query you for whether to save the
> dribble file.
>
> Which is annoying.
>
> The side effect is that Emacs no longer queries you on Emacs shutdown,
> either, but...
>
> I think the new behaviour is probably better than the old one, but I'm
> not sure.  Opinions?

My suggestion would be to add a function to the kill-emacs-hook which
checks if Gnus is still running. This should be customizable, of course.

Another thing is that whenever you run 'compile', 'magit-status' etc.,
Emacs will issue "(Some special files were saved without asking)", but
doesn't say *which* files. AFAIK jidanni has already written a bug
report for that.

-David