From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#19328: [PATCH] Add mechanism to prompt about unsaved customizations Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 20:40:36 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87egs7a5b0.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418348722 27274 80.91.229.3 (12 Dec 2014 01:45:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 01:45:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 19328@debbugs.gnu.org, Ted Zlatanov To: Cameron Desautels Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 12 02:45:15 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XzFIA-000396-4b for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 02:45:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55065 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzFI9-0000CJ-DS for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 20:45:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50435) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzFEG-0002ta-5V for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 20:41:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzFE7-0007LQ-A1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 20:41:12 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:34004) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzFE7-0007LD-0F for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 20:41:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XzFE6-0005IQ-Lh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 20:41:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 01:41:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 19328 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 19328-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B19328.141834844820326 (code B ref 19328); Fri, 12 Dec 2014 01:41:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 19328) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Dec 2014 01:40:48 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43370 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XzFDr-0005Hl-Ab for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 20:40:47 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:32702) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XzFDn-0005HV-Pi for 19328@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 20:40:44 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjwPAOwQflTO+ILA/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYIVaxR0EAgKBJBcBAQEBAQF8hAMBAQMBViMFCwsOJhIUGA0kLogcCdZZAQEBAQYBAQEBHpBvB4RIBYsBpC6BeIQZIYJ3AQEB X-IPAS-Result: AjwPAOwQflTO+ILA/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYIVaxR0EAgKBJBcBAQEBAQF8hAMBAQMBViMFCwsOJhIUGA0kLogcCdZZAQEBAQYBAQEBHpBvB4RIBYsBpC6BeIQZIYJ3AQEB X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,502,1413259200"; d="scan'208";a="100242871" Original-Received: from 206-248-130-192.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.130.192]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 11 Dec 2014 20:40:38 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D7136262D; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 20:40:36 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Cameron Desautels's message of "Thu, 11 Dec 2014 19:04:19 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:97242 Archived-At: > What about turning something like this on by default? I'm not necessarily opposed to it, but I wonder if it's sufficiently unintrusive. E.g. if you just want to try out a minor mode like global-auto-revert-mode, IIUC this will set the var and mark it as "set but unsaved", so when you exit, Emacs will prompt you to save this setting. Maybe it's actually the right thing to do, but I wonder if it will turn out to be more annoying than useful. And I don't see a good solution for it. Stefan