bug#13566: 24.1; Too easy to forget things with remember

[Reuben Thomas]

On 14 May 2013 16:54, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:

Reuben Thomas wrote:

> It seems to me that it's more consistent to make Emacs prompt to save the
> remember buffer, as it does for other unsaved buffers (the alternative
> suggested here would make Emacs silently save the remember buffer if
> exited), but I'd appreciate some guidance.

Maybe you want to associate it with a real file name?
Then it will get auto-save protection, etc.
Probably some temp-name (so that multiple instances do not clash) in
~/.emacs.d, that gets deleted when you call remember-finalize?

Thanks for the extra suggestion.

Auto-save protection would be nice, but that seems like a separate issue, unless you're also suggesting that the prompt-on-exit for an unfinalized remember buffer should be to save in a temporary file (which could be confusing, especially for a user who doesn't use desktop.el or some other session support), in which case I'm not sure it's a good idea.

In any case, as Sebastian has pointed out, remember is effectively obsolescent; this sounds like it might be over-complicated for a minimal fix.

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