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bug#38993: 26.3; EBDB saves the database on Emacs exit even when told no
From: |
Eric Abrahamsen |
Subject: |
bug#38993: 26.3; EBDB saves the database on Emacs exit even when told not to |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Jan 2020 14:53:07 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Jorge P. de Morais Neto <jorge+list@disroot.org> writes:
> Em [2020-01-12 dom 09:38:20-0800], Eric Abrahamsen escreveu:
>
>> I still don't have a good solution for the first problem. I guess
>> what I'm leaning toward is 1: adding a note to the
>> documentation/manual about this weirdness, and 2: defaulting
>> `ebdb-save-on-exit' to nil. The average user will be using EBDB
>> interactively, meaning that they'll get the prompt both at "C-x s" and
>> when killing Emacs. The `ebdb-save-on-exit' option could be reserved
>> for hackers who are using EBDB in some more peculiar fashion.
>
> I think that would be consistent with the rest of Emacs and even other
> desktop applications like LibreOffice.
Cool, that's done.
> But EBDB also has auto-save (as in Emacs 26.3 manual section 18.6 --
> "Auto-Saving: Protection Against Disasters"), right?
Yes, but personally I shut it off on my databases because the
eieio-persistent save routine is horribly slow, and I don't want my
Emacs locking up for several seconds when auto-saving is happening.
>> It looks to me like SourceHut is licensed under the GPL
>> (https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/git.sr.ht/tree/master/LICENSE), so I'm
>> hoping that's an A! Or at least a B.
>
> I lack knowledge of the situation and feel insecure myself in the choice
> of software forge, but still I would like give you the following URL:
> <https://sourcehut.org/alpha-details/>
Oh I know :) I don't put anything in there I don't have mirrored
elsewhere. But I do pay for my account, so the maintainer can get to
beta faster.
New release as soon as I've got the Org tags thing fixed...
- bug#38993: 26.3; EBDB saves the database on Emacs exit even when told not to, (continued)
- bug#38993: 26.3; EBDB saves the database on Emacs exit even when told not to, Eric Abrahamsen, 2020/01/06
- bug#38993: 26.3; EBDB saves the database on Emacs exit even when told not to, Jorge P . de Morais Neto, 2020/01/06
- bug#38993: 26.3; EBDB saves the database on Emacs exit even when told not to, Eric Abrahamsen, 2020/01/06
- bug#38993: 26.3; EBDB saves the database on Emacs exit even when told not to, Jorge P . de Morais Neto, 2020/01/07
- bug#38993: 26.3; EBDB saves the database on Emacs exit even when told not to, Eric Abrahamsen, 2020/01/07
- bug#38993: 26.3; EBDB saves the database on Emacs exit even when told not to, Jorge P . de Morais Neto, 2020/01/08
- bug#38993: 26.3; EBDB saves the database on Emacs exit even when told not to, Eric Abrahamsen, 2020/01/08
- bug#38993: 26.3; EBDB saves the database on Emacs exit even when told not to, Jorge P . de Morais Neto, 2020/01/11
- bug#38993: 26.3; EBDB saves the database on Emacs exit even when told not to, Eric Abrahamsen, 2020/01/12
- bug#38993: 26.3; EBDB saves the database on Emacs exit even when told not to, Jorge P . de Morais Neto, 2020/01/14
- bug#38993: 26.3; EBDB saves the database on Emacs exit even when told not to,
Eric Abrahamsen <=
- bug#38993: 26.3; EBDB saves the database on Emacs exit even when told not to, Eric Abrahamsen, 2020/01/18