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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master e8488bcc9c: Avoid having font locking triggering unnecessary auto-saving
Date: Sat, 07 May 2022 13:21:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1qx52rb7.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83czgpxpmd.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 07 May 2022 19:40:42 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii [2022-05-07 19:40:42] wrote:
> Not good enough: auto-saving is a critical feature, and I object to
> changes that could make it less reliable, because it could mean users
> will lose their edits.  By contrast, with-silent-modifications is just
> a convenience device, to avoid annoying users with redundant "changes"
> of the buffer.

Your call.  The change to `with-silent-modifications` can similarly
break auto-save, of course.

> What practical problem do you want to solve by that change in
> auto-save?

The motivation for the change makes me think that the change I propose
might be closer to the ideal.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-07 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <165191796540.22789.3432288633082546349@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20220507100605.B7CA7C051FF@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2022-05-07 16:06   ` master e8488bcc9c: Avoid having font locking triggering unnecessary auto-saving Stefan Monnier
2022-05-07 16:10     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-07 16:27       ` Stefan Monnier
2022-05-07 16:40         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-07 17:21           ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2022-05-07 17:26             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-07 16:49     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-09 12:37   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-09 13:22     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-05-09 13:35       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-09 13:47         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-09 15:43           ` Stefan Monnier
2022-05-09 16:05             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-09 16:30               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-09 16:45                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-09 17:40                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-09 18:29                     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-05-10  1:51                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-10  2:11                         ` Stefan Monnier
2022-05-10 11:45                           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-10 11:55                             ` Stefan Monnier
2022-05-11 11:22                               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-11 13:19                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-05-12  0:18                                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-09 17:00               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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