From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Devon Sean McCullough <Emacs-Hacker2018@jovi.net>
Cc: 33669@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33669: 26.1; Buffer-menu-mode bad UX
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2018 13:07:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tvjo46pt.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <037E6F90-F638-4DAC-8C9F-F2BE9F46569C@jovi.net> (message from Devon Sean McCullough on Sat, 8 Dec 2018 10:06:48 +0800)
> From: Devon Sean McCullough <Emacs-Hacker2018@jovi.net>
> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2018 10:06:48 +0800
>
> When Buffer-menu-execute asks
>
> Buffer foo modified; kill anyway? (yes or no)
>
> and the reply is no,
> that line is removed anyway, deceiving the user
> by making the buffer menu incorrect.
>
> The user will promptly seek out such buffers — but they disappeared,
> giving the distressing wrong impression that they were killed anyway.
Thanks for reporting this. Does the patch below give good results?
diff --git a/lisp/buff-menu.el b/lisp/buff-menu.el
index bc1288a..95746b3 100644
--- a/lisp/buff-menu.el
+++ b/lisp/buff-menu.el
@@ -476,9 +476,10 @@ Buffer-menu-execute
(tabulated-list-set-col 2 " " t))
(error (warn "Error saving %s" buffer))))
(if delete
- (unless (eq buffer (current-buffer))
- (kill-buffer buffer)
- (tabulated-list-delete-entry))
+ (if (and (not (eq buffer (current-buffer)))
+ (kill-buffer buffer))
+ (tabulated-list-delete-entry)
+ (forward-line 1))
(forward-line 1)))))))))
(defun Buffer-menu-select ()
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-08 2:06 bug#33669: 26.1; Buffer-menu-mode bad UX Devon Sean McCullough
2018-12-08 11:07 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-12-22 10:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-05 8:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <0D3D3224-4085-4608-9367-02F51D74B528@jovi.net>
2019-01-12 11:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
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