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Re: compile: don't ask over and over about saving unrelated files
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David Kastrup |
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Re: compile: don't ask over and over about saving unrelated files |
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21 Jun 2003 09:06:26 +0200 |
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Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Perhaps we could make compile (actually save-some-buffers, which
> compile calls for this purpose) distinguish Y from y and N from
> n, for the purpose of remembering which files should be saved or
> not in the future without asking.
>
> I really dislike the idea of saving certain files without asking;
> however, the feature of making some files as "don't ask" for M-x
> compile seems useful. If you'd like to add that, please do.
>
> One complication is that compile just calls save-some-buffers. So
> this feature has to be in save-some-buffers, but only when it is
> being done on behalf of compile, not all the time.
And the list of files to ignore should probably be in a buffer-local
variable, shouldn't it? Since for different compilations, different
files might not warrant saving.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum