From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Philipp Stephani
> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2018 17:19:38 +0000
> Cc: jixiuf@qq.com= a>, emacs-devel@gn= u.org
>
>=C2=A0 > Probably the second option is better because the first opti= on would prevent PRED from running for
>=C2=A0 > non-file-visiting buffers. Patch attached.
>
>=C2=A0 AFAIU, this will unconditionally disable auto-saving in *ediff-m= erge*
>=C2=A0 and all the similar buffers, when auto-save-visited-mode is turn= ed
>=C2=A0 on.=C2=A0 Is that what we want?=C2=A0 And if that's going to= be the default, how
>=C2=A0 are users supposed to override it if they want?
>
> I think not prompting is the right approach. It's not very user-fr= iendly to interrupt the user every couple of
> seconds, and no other application I know that has autosave prompts the= user for filenames. I think we should
> change the behavior by applying the patch; if some users do want to be= interrupted, we can still add a
> customization option later.
AFAIU, you are not disabling the prompt, you are disabling the
auto-saving itself for such buffers.=C2=A0 I'm asking if that is what w= e
want -- disable auto-saving for buffers like *ediff-merge* when
auto-save-visited-mode is turned on.