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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: bug#8300: save-some-buffers no longer asks user about each one
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 08:45:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pqp2b05c.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m362qw72ox.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>

On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:39:42 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote: 

LMI> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>> 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.

LMI> That's a good point.

LMI> I do like the new save-some-buffers behaviour -- getting prompted for
LMI> irrelevant buffers is just annoying when trying to compile stuff.  But
LMI> since exiting Emacs runs the same function, and we kinda do want to be
LMI> prompted on Emacs exit (I think), then we're in kind of a bind.

LMI> Overall, I think the new behaviour is an improvement.

So maybe exiting Emacs should not run the exact same code the same way?

Maybe an `emacs-is-exiting' global flag could be set?

Ted




  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-04 13:45 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
2011-04-02 21:39                           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-04-04 13:45                             ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2011-04-12 16:24                               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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