[PATCH v3] emacs: postpone/resume support
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Thu Jul 7 17:00:10 PDT 2016
On Sun 2016-06-05 07:18:25 -0400, David Bremner wrote:
> Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at iki.fi> writes:
>
>> ... but I think I am not biased when I think that if ctrl-x ctrl-s
>> does something more magical than simple (save-buffer) in buffers that
>> looks like text editing buffer, that is going to be unexpected disturbing
>> functionality to someone (else like me)...
>
> This is a valid point. On the other hand the binding is copied from
> Gnus, which also includes at least _some_ magic
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Drafts.html
gnus isn't the only thing that does something more "magical" than saving
a raw buffer to a file.
try the following:
echo test | gpg --output test.gpg --armor --default-recipient-self --encrypt
emacs test.gpg
emacs will prompt you to decrypt the file, then let you edit the
cleartext buffer.
a subsequent "C-x C-s" will re-save it encrypted. (at least it does for
me!)
[ i note several weirdnesses here around the round-trip cleanliness and
safety of this operation which aren't relevant to notmuch, but that's
a different story, and i've reported them to emacs upstream ]
Of course, this functionality appears to also happen within
"save-buffer" itself -- so arguably it's not more "magical" than
save-buffer, since it *is* save-buffer.
Tomi, would you object if Mark's patches were somehow integrated into
save-buffer itself, instead of just re-mapping C-x C-s ? (i don't know
elisp well enough to know how feasible that would be)
My bottom line:
Mark's series here works well for me, and represents the best draft
handling i've seen yet for notmuch-emacs. It would be really good to
incorporate something approximating this functionality in the mainline.
--dkg
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