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Hard to understand NEWS entry about 'save-some-buffers-default-predicate'

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Message #11 received at 50380 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 50380 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50380: Hard to understand NEWS entry about
 'save-some-buffers-default-predicate'
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2021 22:01:18 +0200

Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:

> > I find it hard to understand this entry in NEWS:
> >
> > ** New value 'save-some-buffers-root' of 'save-some-buffers-default-predicate'.
> > It allows to ask about saving only files under the project root
> > or in subdirectories of the directory that was default during
> > command invocation.
> >
> > Could someone who understands it please clarify it?  In particular, it
> > would benefit from explaining something like "It allows the
> > 'save-some-buffers' command to ask ...".  Also, how is the "project
> > root" decided?  I think this one very dense sentence should be broken
> > up into two or even three sentences.
>
> There is still open bug#46374 that requires rewriting this feature anyway.

That bug is closed though, should it be re-opened?  Should this bug be
merged into that one?  (I only skimmed it very briefly.)

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