From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
"8891@debbugs.gnu.org" <8891@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#8891: 23.3; save-buffer messages about writing files that may not be written
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 16:36:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45DE9080-191C-45FA-993D-ADEEF2435BCF@boostpro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87aacuuene.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
On Jul 4, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Chong Tiding <cyd@stupidchicken.com> wrote:
> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>>> I don't think it's worth changing.
>>
>> It would be a very minor change -- it would just be moving a `message'
>> down into `basic-save-buffer-2' from `save-buffer', I think.
>
> The implications are not obvious. One good thing about emitting the
> "saving" message early is that if any of the intermediate steps take a
> long time, at least the user is informed about what Emacs is working on.
>
> Postphoning the "saving" message eliminates that benefit, for the very
> minor benefit of handling a corner case (a custom write-file-functions
> entry) a tiny bit better.
FWIW I think I agree with you. I work around it by advising save-buffer; maybe that's for the best.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-18 16:50 bug#8891: 23.3; save-buffer messages about writing files that may not be written Dave Abrahams
2011-07-03 16:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-03 20:26 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-07-03 20:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-03 20:51 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-07-04 2:35 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-04 12:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-04 17:41 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-04 20:36 ` Dave Abrahams [this message]
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