From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
Cc: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: file-precious-flag not taken seriously enough?
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:55:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwsf5ho67.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k5b5x5ey.fsf@red-bean.com> (Karl Fogel's message of "Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:18:45 -0500")
>> 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.
Yes, a message like "Dir read-only: ignoring file-precious-flag" sounds like
a good idea.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-15 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-13 6:26 file-precious-flag not taken seriously enough? Karl Fogel
2008-11-13 15:26 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-14 14:43 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-11-14 23:18 ` Karl Fogel
2008-11-15 14:55 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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