From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposal: `buffer-offer-save' be made a permanent-local Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:59:37 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1276477216 17226 80.91.229.12 (14 Jun 2010 01:00:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:00:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: MON KEY Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 14 03:00:13 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 1ONy24-0001Zd-2P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:00:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35083 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ONy22-0006bh-4I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:00:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49490 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ONy1v-0006bQ-Nm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:00:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ONy1u-0005GY-J9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:59:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-gx0-f169.google.com ([209.85.161.169]:37606) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ONy1u-0005GS-Eo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:59:58 -0400 Original-Received: by gxk2 with SMTP id 2so545909gxk.0 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:59:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=gEH8XQEQCXU4EU/Jivs6WVgj1tPqimAXkbzGhKmRRVE=; b=BaRhNhNoS+IohsNBQ3Jn2/CiBhaTvJ8zXYgdPE+/ulm3TILkoadFgWuJZJRSWklqMi 2pJThyrRTv8P4G8Y2HHtnECsSL+eiFRIperY/uBmsmZ7xxvkxqU110QYRjm7QrHTUr3z Vg1m2tVsndmBKBsRMH2K/uGsxATqYmdquYETY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=O2lVUBJWfJcy0wDjmKpgD9xesnZQE39XsytHTJu2DjCIhcJYLFe/JAjTIS7BRhUZOa 4w5BQl2HF1xnUkHhM46j3awBHrvSPzvbU5gUUI4JrhPf6uqiLBoCoR3FCeA1OS6rLfCG o/J0GA8n1k/sBb+V1u7b2rFRRtVaNgMSdkXnE= Original-Received: by 10.100.50.17 with SMTP id x17mr3985460anx.11.1276477197103; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:59:57 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.100.154.15 with HTTP; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:59:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:125885 Archived-At: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:17 AM, MON KEY wrote: > Proposal: `buffer-offer-save' be made a permanent-local. > > Recently there was a proposal on bug-gnu-emacs to have > `buffer-offer-save' be made a permanent-local e.g. > =C2=A0"bug#6241: Please make buffer-offer-save permanent local" > in which Stefan expressed some willingness to endorse the change: It was my proposal and we discussed it quite a bit here: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D6241 The rationale for the proposal is that if a user somehow sets buffer-offer-save to t it should not be lost because the user changes major mode. The content of the buffer is a propriety of the user, not the major mode. The only real objection to this is that there can be corner cases where a major mode relies on the current behavior. I suggest that this if this is a problem then we will surely here of it and can easily fix it.