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bug#13531: 24.2.92; Normally closed Emacs leaves autosave files
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#13531: 24.2.92; Normally closed Emacs leaves autosave files |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Aug 2019 00:37:12 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
> I mean this behavior:
>
> 0. Start emacs -Q
> 1. Find any file that is writable for you
> 2. Make some change
> 3. You've changed your mind. You type C-x C-c.
> Type n to negate the "Save file ..." question
> Type "yes" to answer the "Modified buffers exist; exit anyway?"
> question
>
> As a result, Emacs exits, but it leaves an autosave file. IMHO this
> shouldn't be the case, because the user decidedly wanted to discard his
> changes. Autosave files should only survive a session if Emacs crashed.
>
> With the current behavior, we only confuse users because they will think
> that the autosave files come from a crash, and will want to check if
> they have to recover anything.
It is perhaps somewhat confusing to auto-save files in this way
(especially after the user has answered "no" to the "save file..."
question), but I think on the whole that this behaviour is safer than
just discarding the contents. Because we all answer stuff wrong once in
a while, and not saving something you wanted to save after all is a
bigger catastrophe than auto-saving a bit too much.
So I don't think not auto-saving will be too popular, and I'm closing
this bug report.
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