From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: "make autoloads" asks a question Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:40:45 +0200 Message-ID: <83pqqnu2hu.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298151656 12074 80.91.229.12 (19 Feb 2011 21:40:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:40:56 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 19 22:40:51 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PquXq-0000QG-Ur for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:40:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36317 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PquXq-0002Ly-Gk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:40:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50919 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PquXk-0002LN-0C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:40:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PquXi-0002sR-N8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:40:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:38463) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PquXi-0002qq-8n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:40:42 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LGV00J00W4SIX00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:40:40 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.140.24]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LGV00H5YW7OWBL0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:40:37 +0200 (IST) X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:136243 Archived-At: If you have several dired.el~N~ files in your lisp/ directory, and dired-x.el or dired-aux.el were modified, then "make autoloads" will will update dired.el, and Emacs will ask a question about deleting excess backup versions of dired.el, when it is about to save dired.el. At least on MS-Windows, the question is not shown, but Emacs still waits for a single character. Is it appropriate for Emacs to ask this question in this context? Should batch-update-autoloads bind version-control to `never', to avoid this?