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* bug#43884: Give explanation choice when asking about reverting buffers
@ 2020-10-09 16:04 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
  2020-10-10 20:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson @ 2020-10-09 16:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 43884

Revert buffer from file /cf/updates/TABZ? (yes or no) ?

Sounds serious. How about adding a "?" option that would tell the user
what that means:

Revert buffer from file /cf/updates/TABZ? (yes or no or ?) ?

So if he hits "?" a *Help* buffer would appear telling him the serious
consequences of each of the two choices.

After looking at
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Reverting.html

we see the message should say
"Yes: Throw away the changes you made in the buffer and replace them with the
saved version of the file from disk."





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* bug#43884: Give explanation choice when asking about reverting buffers
  2020-10-09 16:04 bug#43884: Give explanation choice when asking about reverting buffers 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
@ 2020-10-10 20:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  2020-10-12 11:15   ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2020-10-10 20:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson; +Cc: 43884

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:

> Revert buffer from file /cf/updates/TABZ? (yes or no) ?
>
> Sounds serious. How about adding a "?" option that would tell the user
> what that means:

Do you have a recipe for reproducing this?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





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* bug#43884: Give explanation choice when asking about reverting buffers
  2020-10-10 20:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
@ 2020-10-12 11:15   ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
  2021-06-06 11:04     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson @ 2020-10-12 11:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Lars Ingebrigtsen; +Cc: 43884

>>>>> "LI" == Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
LI> 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:

>> Revert buffer from file /cf/updates/TABZ? (yes or no) ?
>> 
>> Sounds serious. How about adding a "?" option that would tell the user
>> what that means:

LI> Do you have a recipe for reproducing this?

$ emacs file # and edit it but don't save yet.
$ touch file
$ emacsclient -n file





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* bug#43884: Give explanation choice when asking about reverting buffers
  2020-10-12 11:15   ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
@ 2021-06-06 11:04     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2021-06-06 11:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson; +Cc: 43884

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:

>>> Sounds serious. How about adding a "?" option that would tell the user
>>> what that means:
>
> LI> Do you have a recipe for reproducing this?
>
> $ emacs file # and edit it but don't save yet.
> $ touch file
> $ emacsclient -n file

Thanks.  In this case, I think the prompt should just be more explicit
so that a "?" isn't necessary.  So I've made this change in Emacs 28
instead for this scenario.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





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