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[PATCH] project.el: avoid asking user about project-list-file lock

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Message #136 received at 66993 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: sbaugh <at> catern.com
Cc: dmitry <at> gutov.dev, 66993 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, sbaugh <at> janestreet.com
Subject: Re: bug#66993: [PATCH] project.el: avoid asking user about
 project-list-file lock
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 18:26:02 +0200

> From: sbaugh <at> catern.com
> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 15:48:33 +0000 (UTC)
> Cc: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
> 	66993 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > What happens if savehist-mode is nil, though? Which it is by
> > default. For users with this setup the project history will just
> > disappear.
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> > What kind of backward compatibility did you have in mind?
> 
> I was thinking about either keeping our code for saving to
> project-list-file around in some obsoleted form, or using a subset of
> the savehist code to save only project--list when it's not otherwise
> enabled.
> 
> But actually, maybe it's time that we just enable savehist by default.

Even if we decide to do that (and I'm not at all sure we should), how
would that solve the difficulty pointed out by Dmitry?  Even if
savehist is ON by default, the user could turn it OFF, right?

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