From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: compile: don't ask over and over about saving unrelated files Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 14:48:41 -0600 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3EF0D029.2020907@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1055969624 4302 80.91.224.249 (18 Jun 2003 20:53:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 20:53:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 18 22:53:38 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Sjw2-00016W-00 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 22:53:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19Sjvv-0001h7-9P for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 16:53:31 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19Sjuf-00011o-TG for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 16:52:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19SjuU-0000xo-Ed for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 16:52:03 -0400 Original-Received: from horus.isnic.is ([193.4.58.12]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19Sjqa-00087z-SW for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 16:48:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de (root@mail.fu-berlin.de [160.45.11.165]) by horus.isnic.is (8.12.9/8.12.9/isnic) with ESMTP id h5IKlxgO065793 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 20:48:00 GMT (envelope-from ihs_4664@yahoo.com) Original-Received: by mail.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.2.0.98) from Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (160.45.10.36) with esmtp id ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 22:48:14 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.fu-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 22:48:14 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: 170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 20 X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 X-Orig-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1055969293 23059736 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:5333 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:5333 Dan Jacobson wrote: > How about when you do M-x compile and there's some unrelated files you > are not ready to save, and you wish compile wouldn't keep asking you > about them each compile. > > Sure we can hit y y y q each time, but sooner or later you end up > saving them one by one from typing errant y's. > > I'm not sure how to solve this. Perhaps we could make compile (actually save-some-buffers, which compile calls for this purpose) distinguish Y from y and N from n, for the purpose of remembering which files should be saved or not in the future without asking. -- Kevin Rodgers