Re: [PATCH] org-src.el Do not ask to revert unmodified buffers

[pillule <pillule@riseup.net>]

You are right I clearly missed 
org-src-ask-before-returning-to-edit-buffer
Don't know how . . .

Sorry for the noise.


Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> writes:

> Thanks for the patch.
>
> pillule writes:
>
>> Hi, it is asked to the user if we want to revert changes when 
>> re-entering in a org-source buffer.
>> Even if the buffer have no modifications.
>
> Hmm, that description seems to be focusing on the prompt's 
> parenthetical
> note.  When org-src-ask-before-returning-to-edit-buffer is 
> non-nil and
> there's an existing source buffer, the caller is asked whether 
> to return
> to it or regenerate/overwrite it.  The message warns that the 
> second
> option (i.e. answering "no, don't return to existing buffer") 
> will
> discard changes.
>
> It looks like this patch assumes that, when the buffer is 
> unmodified,
> the answer to the above question necessarily becomes "yes, 
> return to the
> existing buffer", but it's not clear to me why that should be. 
> With an
> unmodified buffer, I suppose there's less of a difference 
> between the
> two answers, but at least with the default org-src-window-setup 
> value,
> there's still a user-visible difference in terms of window 
> organization.


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