From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78335 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: bug#8300: save-some-buffers no longer asks user about each one Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 08:45:35 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87pqp2b05c.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <8762qyeg72.fsf@jidanni.org> <874o6h1w7q.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301925951 8239 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2011 14:05:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 14:05:51 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26641@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Apr 04 16:05:47 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 1Q6kPX-0002Kk-0a for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:05:43 +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 1Q6kP9-00082H-TC; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:05:20 -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 1Q6kP8-000824-Rz for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:05:18 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6kOy-0000tn-VR for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:05:13 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6kOy-0001T1-8K for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:05:08 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6kOw-0001rX-P3 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:05:06 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:05:06 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:05:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5D1WnP+Cd8LAEZ5fkKfd9zyN/Tw= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78335 Archived-At: On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:39:42 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: LMI> Russ Allbery 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