From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@catern.com>
Cc: dmitry@gutov.dev, 66993@debbugs.gnu.org, sbaugh@janestreet.com
Subject: bug#66993: [PATCH] project.el: avoid asking user about project-list-file lock
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2023 08:05:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ttpil1lx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87cyw6mzdf.fsf@catern.com> (message from Spencer Baugh on Sat, 18 Nov 2023 23:10:43 +0000 (UTC))
> From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@catern.com>
> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 23:10:43 +0000 (UTC)
> Cc: dmitry@gutov.dev, sbaugh@janestreet.com, 66993@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> >> But actually, maybe it's time that we just enable savehist by default.
> >
> > Even if we decide to do that (and I'm not at all sure we should), how
> > would that solve the difficulty pointed out by Dmitry? Even if
> > savehist is ON by default, the user could turn it OFF, right?
>
> That's fine, we'd still be preserving backwards-compatibility:
> project--list would still be saved by default. The user could turn it
> off, if they want, but that's not a problem - they can turn it off if
> they want.
IMNSHO, it is a very bad idea to have one feature turn on and off as a
side effect of another, unrelated feature. We should not have such
inelegant dependencies. savehist is a general-purpose feature which
saves the history of important user actions, whereas the history of
projects is a completely different feature from a much more narrow
area of user activities. They should not depend on one another, not
directly anyway.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-19 6:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-07 21:28 bug#66993: [PATCH] project.el: avoid asking user about project-list-file lock Spencer Baugh
2023-11-08 0:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-08 12:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 13:20 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-08 15:06 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-08 7:46 ` Michael Albinus
2023-11-08 14:52 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-08 15:44 ` Michael Albinus
2023-11-08 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 12:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 13:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-08 13:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 13:56 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-08 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 15:41 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-08 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 17:05 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-08 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 20:43 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-09 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-09 16:38 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-09 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-09 18:01 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-09 19:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-10 12:48 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-15 13:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 15:36 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-08 16:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 21:04 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-09 6:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-09 11:05 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-09 11:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-09 11:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-09 14:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-15 15:40 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-15 20:49 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-18 1:41 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-18 15:48 ` sbaugh
2023-11-18 15:56 ` sbaugh
2023-11-18 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-18 23:10 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-19 6:05 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-11-19 14:54 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-19 14:31 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-19 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-20 2:05 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-20 11:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-19 14:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-19 17:52 ` Juri Linkov
2023-11-19 19:38 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-20 1:19 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-08 21:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-08 13:58 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-08 15:25 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-08 21:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
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