Re: Recover file hints at startup

[Glauber Alex Dias Prado]

Richard Lewis <richardlewis@fastmail.co.uk> writes:

> At Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:06:49 -0200,
> Glauber Alex Dias Prado wrote:
>> 
>> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Glauber Alex Dias Prado
>> > <smade4@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Richard Lewis <richardlewis@fastmail.co.uk> writes:
>> >>
>> >>> Hi there,
>> >>>
>> >>> I run Emacs 23 in daemon mode and occasionally it crashes. Sometimes
>> >>> this means that autosave files (#...#) are left lying around for my
>> >>> org-mode files. This causes a problem when restarting the Emacs
>> >>> daemon: when starting org-mode it prompts that such-and-such.org has
>> >>> unsaved changes, consider using M-x recover-this-file and then waits
>> >>> for me to hit return.
okay, you can redefine de function after-find-file on your .emacs and
comment out the line containing (file-newer-than-file-p ...) on its
definition at files.el

>> >>>
>> >>> This is fine, except when my Emacs daemon is starting without a
>> >>> controlling terminal (e.g. when it starts as part of my login
>> >>> process). It ends up waiting indefinitely for keyboard input.
>> >>>
>> >>> Any ideas how I can fix this?
>> >> the fancy one is dont do this :).
>> >
>> >
>> > A less glamorous answer is perhaps "send a bug report". With a fix or
>> > without a fix.
>> i said that cause i like to see emacs starting up and dont think it is a
>> good idea to start it automatically at background, so dont do this,
>> sorry for missing the explanation.
>> 
> Yes, I guessed that was what you were thinking. Doesn't mean that I
> shouldn't want to be able to do it, though.
surely