From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 ee512e9: Ignore buffers whose name begins with a space in save-some-buffers
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 20:21:03 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bmm2d4zk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d16iivcx.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (message from Eric Abrahamsen on Fri, 22 Sep 2017 08:52:30 -0700)
> From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 08:52:30 -0700
>
> (and pred
> (progn
> (set-buffer buffer)
> (and buffer-offer-save (> (buffer-size) 0))))
>
> Unless a user has customized `save-some-buffers-default-predicate', PRED
> is only t when Emacs is exiting.
>
> I don't understand why it's being used this way, or why
> `save-some-buffers' should behave differently when called interactively
> vs when Emacs is exiting, but I didn't want to touch it because, as has
> been pointed out, it's been this way for decades.
Does VCS history explain why PRED is used like that?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-22 17:21 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <20170918202955.5043420AC4@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2017-09-19 2:44 ` [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 ee512e9: Ignore buffers whose name begins with a space in save-some-buffers Stefan Monnier
2017-09-19 3:12 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-09-19 12:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-19 13:25 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-09-19 15:44 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-09-19 15:50 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-09-19 15:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-19 16:03 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-09-19 15:37 ` Leo Liu
2017-09-19 15:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-19 10:48 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-09-19 12:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-19 12:26 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-09-19 18:13 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-09-20 2:10 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-09-20 7:16 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-20 17:14 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-09-21 8:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-21 19:57 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-09-21 20:10 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-09-21 22:53 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-09-22 6:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-22 15:52 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-09-22 16:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-22 16:54 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-09-22 19:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-22 23:27 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-09-23 2:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-24 19:25 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-09-24 19:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-24 20:59 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-09-22 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-09-22 17:57 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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