"make autoloads" asks a question

"make autoloads" asks a question

[Eli Zaretskii]

If you have several dired.el~N~ files in your lisp/ directory, and
dired-x.el or dired-aux.el were modified, then "make autoloads" will
will update dired.el, and Emacs will ask a question about deleting
excess backup versions of dired.el, when it is about to save dired.el.

At least on MS-Windows, the question is not shown, but Emacs still
waits for a single character.

Is it appropriate for Emacs to ask this question in this context?
Should batch-update-autoloads bind version-control to `never', to
avoid this?

Re: "make autoloads" asks a question

[Glenn Morris]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Should batch-update-autoloads bind version-control to `never', to
> avoid this?

I think so. It only changes sections of the file that are
auto-generated, so there is no need to keep the previous version.
Stand-alone loaddefs files have version-control: never cookies.

Re: "make autoloads" asks a question

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Should batch-update-autoloads bind version-control to `never', to
>> avoid this?

> I think so. It only changes sections of the file that are
> auto-generated, so there is no need to keep the previous version.
> Stand-alone loaddefs files have version-control: never cookies.

Sounds right,


        Stefan