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From: Nick Helm <nick@tenpoint.co.nz>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>, 28843@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28843: 26.0.90; gnus kills unsaved message buffer
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 08:16:15 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2vactsfw0.fsf@tenpoint.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tvsej62a.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 14 Apr 2018 15:01:01 +0200")

On Sun, 15 Apr 2018 at 01:01:01 +1200, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Nick Helm <nick@tenpoint.co.nz> writes:
>
>> Personally, I think prompting gains us quite a bit. Most importantly, it
>> can remind users that an un-dealt-with message exists. Maybe they
>> intended to send it, but forgot, or mis-keyed? Or perhaps it contains
>> sensitive info that shouldn't be kept? By silently saving (to a
>> pretty obscure place) the user may never know about it.
>
> Yeah, that's true.  You've convinced me.  :-)

That's great, thanks!

> Do you have a patch to make Gnus prompt at the right time (while it's
> still early enough that messages can be sent etc)?

I'm afraid I only got as far as thinking about how it might work,
possibly using `gnus-exit-gnus-hook', but that's about it.





  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-14 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-15  7:46 bug#28843: 26.0.90; gnus kills unsaved message buffer Nick Helm
2017-10-26  0:52 ` Nick Helm
2017-11-08  2:28   ` Nick Helm
2017-11-08  2:41     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-11-08  3:49       ` Nick Helm
2017-11-08 16:22         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-04-11 21:32         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-11 23:21           ` Nick Helm
2018-04-12 11:36             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-14  3:11               ` Nick Helm
2018-04-14 13:01                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-14 20:16                   ` Nick Helm [this message]
2018-04-15 13:49                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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