From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Fogel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: file-precious-flag not taken seriously enough? Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:18:45 -0500 Message-ID: <87k5b5x5ey.fsf@red-bean.com> References: <87bpwkgmzp.fsf@red-bean.com> <87r65f4pgg.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> Reply-To: Karl Fogel NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226704757 1404 80.91.229.12 (14 Nov 2008 23:19:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:19:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kevin Rodgers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 15 00:20:16 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L17xX-0002kd-UV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:20:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44460 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L17wP-0005us-Na for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:19:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L17wE-0005qr-KT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:18:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L17wD-0005qQ-Qp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:18:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54076 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L17wD-0005q7-3o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:18:53 -0500 Original-Received: from sanpietro.red-bean.com ([66.146.193.61]:57516) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L17wA-00055D-OA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:18:51 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46942 helo=floss) by sanpietro.red-bean.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L17w6-0002I5-3M; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:18:46 -0600 In-Reply-To: (Kevin Rodgers's message of "Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:43:44 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:105693 Archived-At: Kevin Rodgers 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 :-).