Re: Proposal: `buffer-offer-save' be made a permanent-local

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:17 AM, MON KEY <address@hidden> wrote:
> Proposal: `buffer-offer-save' be made a permanent-local.
>
> Recently there was a proposal on bug-gnu-emacs to have
> `buffer-offer-save' be made a permanent-local e.g.
>  "bug#6241: Please make buffer-offer-save permanent local"
> in which Stefan expressed some willingness to endorse the change:


It was my proposal and we discussed it quite a bit here:

  http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6241

The rationale for the proposal is that if a user somehow sets
buffer-offer-save to t it should not be lost because the user changes
major mode.

The content of the buffer is a propriety of the user, not the major mode.

The only real objection to this is that there can be corner cases
where a major mode relies on the current behavior. I suggest that this
if this is a problem then we will surely here of it and can easily fix
it.