From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Hanchrow Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Patch] url-cookie-write-file saves versioned backups Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:01:11 -0700 Message-ID: <87k64sb0fc.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> References: <87irkdrb06.fsf@x3y2z1.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156828124 29828 80.91.229.2 (29 Aug 2006 05:08:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 05:08:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 29 07:08:42 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GHvq3-000438-Ss for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:08:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GHvq3-00013I-96 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:08:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GHvpj-00011X-06 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:08:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GHvpg-0000zt-V5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:08:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GHvpg-0000zi-LF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:08:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GHvyn-0003yH-05 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:17:41 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GHvpa-0003z7-JW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:08:10 +0200 Original-Received: from q-static-138-125.avvanta.com ([206.124.138.125]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:08:10 +0200 Original-Received: from offby1 by q-static-138-125.avvanta.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:08:10 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: q-static-138-125.avvanta.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.51 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/IPB8XhisvpUiGmKvEU/c/GnhhE= 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:59046 Archived-At: >>>>> "Richard" == Richard Stallman 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