From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 34093@debbugs.gnu.org, leonard@lausen.nl
Subject: bug#34093: auto-save prevents quitting emacs on read-only filesystem
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 21:20:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mu2rerz6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmnNog0LGdqgM8CVHZrM2rPzVc-+sPOPoTRQ7wXoJALn0A@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Tue, 18 Aug 2020 17:52:24 +0000)
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 17:52:24 +0000
> Cc: 34093@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> (progn (savehist-mode)
> (setq savehist-file "/usr/foo")
> (confirm-exit-emacs))
>
> I have attached a patch which fixes this bug by showing a warning if
> this file is not readable.
Thanks, but is a single warning really enough? What if the situation
is slightly different, in that the user could somehow resolve the
problem -- should we perhaps prompt the user whether to retry or
ignore the error?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-18 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-16 3:01 bug#34093: auto-save prevents quitting emacs on read-only filesystem Leonard Lausen
2020-08-18 17:52 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-18 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-08-18 18:44 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-05-11 13:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-12 4:04 ` Richard Stallman
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