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bug#26986: 26.0.50; Unsafe recovery should be off by default in batch mo


From: Philipp Stephani
Subject: bug#26986: 26.0.50; Unsafe recovery should be off by default in batch mode
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 20:26:13 +0000



Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> schrieb am Do., 18. Mai 2017 um 21:50 Uhr:
> From: Philipp <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 21:44:22 +0200
>
> In batch mode there will usually be no long-lived buffers with
> non-recoverable contents, therefore the reasoning for
> `attempt-stack-overflow-recovery' and
> `attempt-orderly-shutdown-on-fatal-signal' being t doesn't apply.  This
> means that these variables should be nil by default in batch mode.

I see your point, but what are the arguments for changing their values
in batch mode?  IOW, what advantages will this give us?

When debugging Emacs internals or running unit tests, setting these variables to nil will cause obvious and clear failures instead of silent recovery attempts. 

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