Re: [PATCH] Allow inhibiting 'auto-save-visited-mode' on a per-buffer basis.

[Philipp Stephani]

Am Mi., 8. Apr. 2020 um 16:58 Uhr schrieb Stefan Monnier
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>
> > How strongly do people feel about having a minor mode for this? If not
> > too strongly, I'd go ahead with my original proposal, which is simpler
> > implementation-wise.
>
> I don't think you can do much simpler than the patch I sent and it lets
> users inhibit the mode in those mode where they don't want it with:
>
>     (add-hook 'foo-mode-hook
>               (lambda () (setq-local auto-save-visited-mode nil)))
>
> and it's "compatible" with a future addition of an actual minor mode.
> As mentioned, having such "redundant checks" is common practice for
> minor modes.
>


Didn't we already discuss this above? It's against our own
recommendations for minor modes, so we shouldn't put it into the Emacs
codebase itself.

Unless I hear strong objections, I'll push my original approach in a few days.