From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
To: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: file-precious-flag not taken seriously enough?
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:18:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k5b5x5ey.fsf@red-bean.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gfk2qv$hun$1@ger.gmane.org> (Kevin Rodgers's message of "Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:43:44 -0700")
Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> writes:
> In case the usual file saving method results in a problem (which
> file-precious-flag was set to prevent), shouldn't there be a warning
> message here to inform the user? Not to distract him/her, but so that
> they can find a clue in the *Messages* buffer after something has gone
> wrong.
Or another option: at least flash a message that file-precious-flag is
going to be ignored, when that's the case.
However, for now I'm just going to change the file-precious-flag
documentation to indicate that it is advisory. This was all just stuff
I found on the way to making another change, which I'd still like to
make :-).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-14 23:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-13 6:26 file-precious-flag not taken seriously enough? Karl Fogel
2008-11-13 15:26 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-14 14:43 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-11-14 23:18 ` Karl Fogel [this message]
2008-11-15 14:55 ` Stefan Monnier
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