From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: "consider M-x recover-file" too important to just flash Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:49:55 +0800 Message-ID: <87zmwjqyd8.fsf@jidanni.org> References: <87psxj383g.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112314764 7388 80.91.229.2 (1 Apr 2005 00:19:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 00:19:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 01 02:19:22 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DH9sZ-0003sJ-4G for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2005 02:19:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DHA9M-0007YT-C6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:36:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DHA4m-0002W5-Mm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:31:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DHA4W-0002Ck-4D for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:31:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DHA3t-0000qu-1e for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:30:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [204.74.68.40] (helo=frodo.hserus.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1DH9JQ-0001qT-Uw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:42:57 -0500 Original-Received: from tc218-187-78-155.2-4.dynamic.apol.com.tw ([218.187.78.155]:33357 helo=jidanni1) by frodo.hserus.net with esmtpsa (Cipher TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.50 #1) id 1DH9JM-000D4k-HG by authid with plain for ; Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:12:53 +0530 Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:11026 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:11026 DJ> In firefox this is run of the mill: the "OK?" box that doesn't go away DJ> unless you click it. rms> That behavior is terribly annoying--we certainly shouldn't make Emacs rms> act that way. Well, how shall we make sure we saw that important message? What if we reached down to scratch our ankle during the one second or whatever we were given to have noticed that message before it went away or was covered up by some other message? No big deal if #backup_file# exists for you perhaps, but I want emacs to make sure I am aware of it! You could ask the user if he wants to recover("yes") or blunder on anyway("no"), "or hit C-g" to not open the file at all.