From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: saveplace prevent me from quitting if ~/.emacs-places is write-protected Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 14:40:23 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <873cm1w6pj.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1047066168 20855 80.91.224.249 (7 Mar 2003 19:42:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 19:42:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 07 20:42:47 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18rNjy-0005QE-00 for ; Fri, 07 Mar 2003 20:42:46 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18rO4v-0003FI-00 for ; Fri, 07 Mar 2003 21:04:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18rNif-0007h5-03 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2003 14:41:25 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18rNhn-0007Ot-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2003 14:40:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18rNhh-0007Ee-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2003 14:40:26 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18rNhg-0007Bw-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2003 14:40:24 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18rNhf-0008GH-00; Fri, 07 Mar 2003 14:40:23 -0500 Original-To: kfogel@red-bean.com In-reply-to: <873cm1w6pj.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> (message from Karl Fogel on 05 Mar 2003 20:48:40 -0600) Original-cc: matthieu.moy@imag.fr X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12145 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12145 Richard Stallman quotes someone else saying: > I have saveplace enabled, and I launched Emacs from another account > than mine, so, no permission on ~/.emacs-place. Can you say exactly what you did, starting from login? I didn't do this myself. I don't know any more. Assuming we can reproduce this, what is the right solution? Is there already a policy for how Emacs should behave when there's an error saving a file at exit time, and that file is managed by Emacs (i.e., is not just a regular file visited for editing by the user)? It may as well ignore the error. I don't see a better alternative. The user wants to exit and should not be impeded.