From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 49869@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#49869: Revert buffer? Yes/No/Maybe
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2021 02:33:55 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bl6bcw6s.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83wnp0jvb2.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 05 Aug 2021 08:48:49 +0300")
>> The problem is that by default the length of the key sequence
>> when the user decides to revert the current buffer
>> is 7 keys:
>>
>> 'C-x x g y e s RET'
>>
>> With the patch provided by Gregory the default length
>> will be reduced to 4 keys:
>>
>> 'C-x x g y'
>>
>> or to 3 keys when there are no unsaved changes.
>
> First, you can have those 4 keys if you customize use-short-answers;
> no changes in Emacs are necessary.
>
> And second, are you talking only about reverting when there are no
> unsaved changes? If so, what are the use cases when you need to do
> such a thing, and why? Perhaps such use cases justify a separate
> command and key binding, like "C-x RET r" does for one such use case.
I discovered this problem while editing source code in one
Emacs instance, and updating the source file in `emacs -Q`.
To get an updated version of the file in `emacs -Q` required
typing 4 more keys after every revert.
>> But when the user decided to revert the buffer explicitly,
>> why require to type more keys?
>
> In general, when there are unsaved changes? To let the user think one
> last time before doing something potentially very destructive.
The question was why require typing more keys
when there are no unsaved changes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-05 23:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-04 8:45 bug#49869: Revert buffer? Yes/No/Maybe Juri Linkov
2021-08-04 9:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-04 10:06 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-08-04 9:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-08-04 12:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-04 12:22 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-08-04 12:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-04 12:37 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-08-04 12:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-04 13:30 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-08-05 10:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-05 11:08 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-08-06 9:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-10 7:12 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-10 14:40 ` bug#49869: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-08-10 14:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-04 20:43 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-05 5:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-05 23:33 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2021-08-06 6:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
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