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bug#34093: auto-save prevents quitting emacs on read-only filesystem
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#34093: auto-save prevents quitting emacs on read-only filesystem |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Aug 2020 21:20:13 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 17:52:24 +0000
> Cc: 34093@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> (progn (savehist-mode)
> (setq savehist-file "/usr/foo")
> (confirm-exit-emacs))
>
> I have attached a patch which fixes this bug by showing a warning if
> this file is not readable.
Thanks, but is a single warning really enough? What if the situation
is slightly different, in that the user could somehow resolve the
problem -- should we perhaps prompt the user whether to retry or
ignore the error?