I've been hacking on Makefiles, and I habitually save while rewriting, not just when I have a finished edit. I may also have autosave turned on. There were annoying confirmation requests when that happened, and if I did not notice (maybe due to autosave), the requests pile up and once a later one has been answered, an earlier one reappears but either can't accept the input or maybe there were a bunch of warnings queued up. Or maybe there was some kind of implicit loop, where confirming the save after some timer ran out caused another confirmation request. I don't know. But there's no customization to let the user decide whether they want this intrusive behavior. I have attached a patch to let the user set the list of hooks that will be run when the buffer is written, with the default being the current set that are used. At least I can set it to nil. 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