Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:
Jason Rumney wrote:
As I said at the start of the thread, it would be correct for Emacs
to flush its autosave buffers to disk at this point, but not to
start asking all the questions that save-buffers-kill-emacs
does. What if Emacs is on a secondary monitor, and the Graphics
driver shuts it off when it receives the shutdown message? Emacs
will be delaying shutdown waiting for a response, while the user
cannot see it.
The problem with autosave is that data might be lost if the user
happens to use some other tool to edit the files afterwards.
Tough. That's what "editing" means. I don't want changes saved
without my saying so: that might end up the file in a terminally ill
state, like when I cut out a large region for the purpose of pasting
it somewhere else, and then Emacs shuts down.
Recovering a session is good enough for me.