From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now?
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 22:45:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r16tk6ew.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: c4c4e7cb1ee9593f88d8ad8f607a392a649a49c5.camel@adminart.net
hw wrote:
>>> (with-current-buffer transient_buffer (auto-save-mode nil))
>>>
>>
>> Same.
>
> Yes, explicitly :)
This makes even less sense actually. It doesn't make sense in
the sense I already mentioned, but it also doesn't make sense
in the sense that intuitively, that looks like you are
_disabling_ the mode! When in fact you are enabling it.
I don't know the reason for this counter-intuitive use of nil,
but if I'm allowed to theorize it is a side-effect of making
the argument, ARG, optional and having
(auto-save-mode)
enabling the mode (this is so for all minor modes and is
intuitive), however technically that implies ARG being nil so
for that to happen it must happen when ARG is nil.
If this is indeed the reason I consider explicit use of nil to
enable a mode not just poor style but a bug.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-22 21:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-14 4:55 how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now? hw
2022-03-14 12:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-15 5:20 ` hw
2022-03-15 6:47 ` Jean Louis
2022-03-15 7:24 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-17 4:35 ` hw
2022-03-17 5:00 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-18 7:31 ` hw
2022-03-18 14:45 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-03-19 2:33 ` hw
2022-03-19 2:38 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-15 14:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-16 0:51 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-03-16 1:45 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-03-17 19:23 ` hw
2022-03-17 22:07 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-03-18 8:28 ` hw
2022-03-19 1:18 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-03-19 3:14 ` hw
2022-03-19 3:47 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-03-19 6:24 ` hw
2022-03-19 7:34 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-19 7:51 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-20 6:02 ` hw
2022-03-20 6:26 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-19 9:58 ` Michael Albinus
2022-03-20 6:36 ` hw
2022-03-20 7:04 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-21 16:22 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-03-20 7:29 ` tomas
2022-03-20 8:05 ` volatile /tmp [was: how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now?] tomas
2022-03-20 10:36 ` hw
2022-03-20 11:13 ` tomas
2022-03-21 3:41 ` hw
2022-03-21 5:53 ` tomas
2022-03-21 8:47 ` Michael Albinus
2022-03-20 9:57 ` how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now? Michael Albinus
2022-03-20 10:21 ` tomas
2022-03-20 10:19 ` hw
2022-03-20 10:30 ` tomas
2022-03-21 3:55 ` hw
2022-03-21 4:13 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-21 12:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-23 6:12 ` hw
2022-03-23 9:25 ` Michael Albinus
2022-03-20 0:21 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-03-20 4:56 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-20 7:39 ` hw
2022-03-20 8:08 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-22 7:06 ` hw
2022-03-22 19:50 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-22 21:45 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2022-03-21 7:22 ` Jean Louis
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