GNU bug report logs - #32581
24.4; make recover-file a prompt instead of a warning

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Glenn Linderman <v+python <at> g.nevcal.com>

Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 04:36:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 24.4

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Glenn Linderman <v+python <at> g.nevcal.com>
Cc: 32581 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32581: 24.4; make recover-file a prompt instead of a warning
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 04:42:55 +0200
Glenn Linderman <v+python <at> g.nevcal.com> writes:

> I have emacs open a certain large file at boot-time startup, because
> the Python mode takes so long to parse it. So I guess I forgot to save
> last night, did a windows shutdown, and this morning my work wasn't
> there... but while emacs probably gave the warning, it was probably
> wiped out by the next warning from the Python mode, and I don't sit
> there and watch my computer boot up.  So by the time I noticed stuff
> from last night was missing, the recover file had been rewritten with
> the new edits.

If I understand you correctly (and I may not), you're saying that when
you open a Python file that has an auto-saved file, then Emacs says that
an auto-saved file exists...  and then Python mode issues a message that
overwrites that message?

What is that Python-mode message?

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