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26.0.50; Unsafe recovery should be off by default in batch mode

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From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 26986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26986: 26.0.50; Unsafe recovery should be off by default in batch mode
Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 12:06:52 +0000

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> schrieb am Do., 18. Mai 2017 um 22:39 Uhr:

> > From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 20:26:13 +0000
> > Cc: 26986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> >  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.
>
> OK, but the batch mode is not used only for debugging or testing.
> Perhaps we should change the values in these two cases.
>

That would be a good start. However, I still think these should be off in
batch mode by default; batch mode is very unlikely to be used for
circumstances where they could be useful.

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