Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: [BUG?] muse-publish handling abnormal exit during call to publish

[Peter K . Lee]

Michael Olson <address@hidden> writes:

> "Peter K.Lee" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I was tracing instances of abnormal exit during publishing, i.e. if
>> you include something like <lisp>will-make-error</lisp> inside your
>> planner file and you publish the file C-c C-p
>> (muse-project-publish), and I found that emacs wants to ask if you
>> want to close the buffer *temp* or *temp*<x> before it prints out
>> what caused an error:
>>
>> let: Symbol's value as variable is void: will-make-error
>
> I've tried to correct this in
> address@hidden/muse--main--1.0--patch-137 by wrapping
> evaluation of lisp tags in condition-case, much like emacs-wiki does.

Thanks!

>> If you say no (thinking you want to preserve the temporary buffer),
>> the next time you publish once again, this time, you get a prompt
>> asking if you want to save the FILE that contains the
>> <lisp>...</lisp> snippet.  (this happens even if you save right
>> before calling muse-project-publish)
>
> I really detest that behavior.  In the most recent patch, I've worked
> around it by making a new macro called
> `muse-with-temp-buffer-no-prompt' that should *never* prompt for
> saving when its buffer is killed.  Emacs should implement this
> behavior by default, IMNSHO.

I agree with you there.  I don't think it gives proper meaning to the
word "temporary".

-Peter