From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Network security manager Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 17:23:39 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87oas4h555.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87a93oh180.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83h9xw9zg3.fsf@gnu.org> <83d28k9yb9.fsf@gnu.org> <83ppcj9740.fsf@gnu.org> <83k32r89rd.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416435857 5813 80.91.229.3 (19 Nov 2014 22:24:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 22:24:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 19 23:24:10 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XrDfU-0000RQ-NJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 23:24:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32769 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrDfU-000180-9x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 17:24:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40963) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrDfA-00017t-2s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 17:23:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrDf2-0002NS-Jb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 17:23:48 -0500 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:59832) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrDf2-0002NO-FP; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 17:23:40 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id sAJMNdx4008791; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 17:23:39 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 14B3B8667; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 17:23:39 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <83k32r89rd.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 19 Nov 2014 17:56:06 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5130=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9393 : core <5130> : inlines <1545> : streams <1345333> : uri <1835345> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:177827 Archived-At: >> It's definitely not dangerous. IIUC he needs this info to decide >> whether his code can prompt the user or not. Maybe it won't do the >> right thing in 100% of the cases, but it's clear that if inhibit-quit is >> non-nil, we're in a context where we shouldn't prompt the user. > It's not clear to me at all. Some code could set the variable for > reasons that have no relation to prompts. Can you give a scenario where inhibit-quit is non-nil and yet prompting the user would be OK? Stefan