From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#38993: 26.3; EBDB saves the database on Emacs exit even when told not to Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 10:54:35 -0800 Message-ID: <871rs9dbis.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87tv58mo8d.fsf@disroot.org> <87y2ukxt0r.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87v9pofg9b.fsf@disroot.org> <87y2ukw9q4.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87ftgr1o0q.fsf@disroot.org> <87zhezt8eo.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87lfqi9ix4.fsf@disroot.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="169333"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 38993@debbugs.gnu.org To: Jorge P. de Morais Neto Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 08 19:55:53 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1ipGUB-000NYC-Ss for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2020 19:55:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48046 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ipGUA-0006Ah-Mw for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2020 13:55:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48335) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ipGTw-00067s-C6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2020 13:55:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ipGTv-00083P-96 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2020 13:55:04 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:45324) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ipGTv-00083F-5g for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2020 13:55:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ipGTv-0006SQ-5Z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2020 13:55:03 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eric Abrahamsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:55:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 38993 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 38993-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B38993.157850968924786 (code B ref 38993); Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:55:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 38993) by debbugs.gnu.org; 8 Jan 2020 18:54:49 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51295 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ipGTh-0006Rh-JT for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2020 13:54:49 -0500 Original-Received: from ericabrahamsen.net ([52.70.2.18]:45654 helo=mail.ericabrahamsen.net) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ipGTf-0006RU-7D for 38993@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2020 13:54:48 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (c-73-254-86-141.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [73.254.86.141]) (Authenticated sender: eric@ericabrahamsen.net) by mail.ericabrahamsen.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0B341FA080; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 18:54:40 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87lfqi9ix4.fsf@disroot.org> (Jorge P. de Morais Neto's message of "Wed, 08 Jan 2020 10:28:23 -0300") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:174376 Archived-At: Jorge P. de Morais Neto writes: [...] > Oh, and in my quick testing in Spacemacs (this time I didn't start a > minimally customized instance), setting `ebdb-save-on-exit' to nil > (either with `setq' or with Customize) has no effect if EBDB is already > open. I believe it would be better to change this behavior. One reason > is that it is counter-intuitive. Another is that the user might open > EBDB, make some changes and then realize she does not want to persist > them. Okay, I guess that would work: always add a hook, but only actually do the save if `ebdb-save-on-exit' is t. So if you have open *EBDB* buffers, and unsaved changes, but you set `ebdb-save-on-exit' to nil, then when you kill Emacs you'll still get prompted to save EBDB, but if you say "no" then nothing further will happen. Note that you can (I think) also dump unsaved changes by running `ebdb-reload-database' on the database in question. Come to think of it, that command should ask for confirmation before reloading, if the database has unsaved changes. >> I'm glad it's useful to you! I hadn't really thought about donations, >> I suppose it makes me a tiny bit uncomfortable. But I see Github has >> a sponsorship thing, I suppose it wouldn't hurt to sign up! > > Good! It would be even better if you had a more free-software-friendly > mechanism of donation. Maybe Liberapay? By the way, if you could > entirely move away from GitHub, some of us would be happier. Oh, Liberapay looks good! I realized GitHub Sponsors only lets you set up recurring monthly payments, which doesn't seem very likely. Anyway, I have no real expectations. I have an account at SourceHut, which is very FOSS-friendly, but so far haven't put any repos there, maybe I could consider moving. Eric