From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What's the problem? Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 18:54:42 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <4nllpt3hr3.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <5bad69zd43.fsf@lister.roxen.com> <4noeuon378.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <4ny8tsgxy6.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nhe0ggv0u.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nk75bwjaf.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nsmjv8d32.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> <87iskpbloe.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AUxMQ-0003SL-00 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 01:10:18 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AUxMQ-0007Hn-00 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 01:10:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AUyFG-0006Ly-AU for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 20:06:58 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AUyF9-0006LN-FZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 20:06:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AUyEg-0006F6-VZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 20:06:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AUy66-0003E6-PU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 19:57:30 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1AUx7K-0004pL-Ny; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 18:54:42 -0500 Original-To: Miles Bader In-reply-to: (message from Miles Bader on 11 Dec 2003 10:46:01 +0900) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:18663 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18663 Sure; I hate auto-save delays too (even more annoying is the !@#$%! purposeful-delay-to-give-an-error-message autosave does when it can't write a file) It would be easy to change that. The question is, what other way should it make sure the user sees that there is an error?