Subject: Re: bug#72019: [PATCH] Add project argument to project-kill-buffers

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 08:47:14 +0300

> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 22:44:55 +0300
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
> 
> On 11/07/2024 07:50, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 03:11:46 +0300
> >> Cc:[email-masked]
> >> From: Dmitry Gutov<[email-masked]>
> >>
> >> On 10/07/2024 17:32, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >>> In my book, prompting the user with the like of
> >>>
> >>>     Project FOO disappeared, continue killing its buffers?
> >> Without a change like the proposed, we don't have access to any FOO (the
> >> hook simply will return nil), so that's not something the general code
> >> can do.
> > That's a minor issue that can be easily handled by fine-tuning the
> > message.  For example:
> > 
> >    Current project disappeared, continue killing its buffers?
> 
> We would basically never be killing "its" buffers after that - so the 
> proposed message seems misleading.

Feel free to propose a different text.  My main point is that it
should not be too hard to come up with a message that is both accurate
and helpful, in the sense that the user can decide what to do in this
situation.