From: Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net>
Subject: Re: [Patch] url-cookie-write-file saves versioned backups
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:01:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k64sb0fc.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1GHpIx-00029Q-Rg@fencepost.gnu.org
>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
Richard> Versioned backups of the cookies file are being saved
Richard> (contrary to the intent of the last changes made to
Richard> url-cookie.el in revision 1.18), which causes
Richard> `backup-buffer' to ask for confirmation to delete
Richard> those excess backup files.
Richard> Is that necessarily wrong?
I think so, because the confirmation prompts seem to appear
asynchronously -- I'll be doing something that has nothing to do with
w3m (like using ERC), and suddenly I'll be asked to delete excess
backups. And this happens fairly frequently -- perhaps every half
hour.
--
But users will not now with glad cries glom on to a language that
gives them no more than what Scheme or Pascal gave them.
-- Guy Steele, http://www.sun.com/research/jtech/pubs/98-oopsla-growing.ps
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-29 5:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-27 23:53 [Patch] url-cookie-write-file saves versioned backups Diane Murray
2006-08-28 22:10 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-29 0:13 ` Diane Murray
2006-08-29 17:18 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-29 5:01 ` Eric Hanchrow [this message]
2006-08-29 17:18 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-29 14:01 ` Stefan Monnier
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