From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>, 8399@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8399: 23.3; save-some-buffers ignores buffer names
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 10:01:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbliyltd7.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87imd697mo.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 25 Aug 2020 15:29:03 +0200")
> Did I get the gist right below? I'm not really sure about whether it's
> useful to prefer the buffer names in this way, though -- the use case
> here was VM, which has meaningful buffer names that visit obscure
> files... but is that normal?
I think it's rare for buffer-names to be different from its file name,
and usually if there's a difference the buffer-name is more meaningful
(as in the VM case).
But I'd be surprised if we couldn't find counter examples.
> Isn't it more useful to know what files you're saving to, and not what
> buffers they're coming from?
Maybe we should choose (i.e. display both)?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-25 14:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-31 21:33 bug#8399: 23.3; save-some-buffers ignores buffer names Uday S Reddy
2011-04-01 1:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-01 8:39 ` Uday S Reddy
2011-04-01 14:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-25 13:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-25 14:01 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-08-25 14:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-25 14:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-25 14:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-25 14:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-25 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
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