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bug#26986: 26.0.50; Unsafe recovery should be off by default in batch mo


From: Philipp Stephani
Subject: bug#26986: 26.0.50; Unsafe recovery should be off by default in batch mode
Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 12:06:52 +0000



Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> schrieb am Do., 18. Mai 2017 um 22:39 Uhr:
> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 20:26:13 +0000
> Cc: 26986@debbugs.gnu.org
>
>  I see your point, but what are the arguments for changing their values
>  in batch mode? IOW, what advantages will this give us?
>
> When debugging Emacs internals or running unit tests, setting these variables to nil will cause obvious and
> clear failures instead of silent recovery attempts.

OK, but the batch mode is not used only for debugging or testing.
Perhaps we should change the values in these two cases.

That would be a good start. However, I still think these should be off in batch mode by default; batch mode is very unlikely to be used for circumstances where they could be useful. 

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