[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: minor annoyance

[Michael Olson]

address@hidden writes:

> When I interrupt (C-c C-c) saving a remember note (e.g. because I
> forgot to add something), then the modified wiki/planner pages need
> manual tweaking, because half of the saving work had been done
> already before the interrupt.  That's not very nice.  No great harm
> is done, but it's just annoying, and gives an un-solid feeling to
> the package.  Yes, saving can take a long time; I think as a first
> step in the right direction, the command should collect all its
> information before starting to modify any buffers: that removes at
> least very obvious cutting interrupt points (where accidental
> quitting is very well possible).

I fully agree.  I came close to making a patch to prompt first, then
write, but ran out of time.

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