Re: Question about handling file deletion

[Timur Aydin <ta@taydin.org>]

On 6/26/2013 3:22 PM, Stephen Berman wrote:
> If a package provides functionality for deleting files used by it, is it
> considered a bug in the package if it does not handle the situation
> where a user deletes such files using a command outside of the package
> and this causes errors when using the package which don't arise if the
> package file-deletion functionality is used?  I'm faced with this issue
> in the new version of todo-mode.el (see bug#14688).  If someone deletes
> a todo file using e.g. Dired and then gets an error in Todo mode and
> reports it as a bug, is it kosher for me reply "If it hurts, don't do
> that.  Use todo-delete-file." and close the bug?  (That command doesn't
> actually exist yet, but I think it will be much easier to implement than
> trying to handle the result of deleting todo files outside of Todo
> mode.)

When I visit a file and then delete that file using "rm", the buffer of 
that file is still there and emacs doesn't do anything about it. So if 
somebody deletes a TODO file, why not let the todo information stay in 
the respective buffer? So what is different about todo-mode.el that 
makes it necessary to implement a different behavior?

I'm not criticizing you motivation, only trying to understand the 
situation better.

-- 
Timur