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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, Kevin Foley <kevin@kevinjfoley.me>
Cc: 44202@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44202: [PATCH] Add variable to control confirmation of help-mode-revert-buffer
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 05:04:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmnkBez=4yXmgiFJ7bF4eXTs6x5xjZ5KhUmSHGZAbDjCEg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lffsruwg.fsf@gnus.org>

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> So I've just removed the prompting in *Help* unconditionally on the
> trunk now.

I like this change.  But I have now run into the scenario where I type
`g' to see the new value of a variable (where I expected a change) and
nothing seemed to happen.  The problem, of course, was that the value of
the variable did not change as I expected.

For me, this is fine, but I think this risks being confusing to
beginners.  And now I'm starting to think that perhaps this is why the
prompt was added in the first place.

So I wonder if it would perhaps make sense to show a message when the
buffer is reverted?  That way the user will get at least some feedback.





  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-17 13:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-24 20:25 bug#44202: [PATCH] Add variable to control confirmation of help-mode-revert-buffer Kevin Foley
2020-10-24 23:40 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-25  0:01 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-25 13:39   ` Kevin Foley
2020-10-25 13:50     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-25 14:47       ` Kevin Foley
2020-10-25 16:50         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-25 18:42           ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-25 20:08             ` Kevin Foley
2020-10-26 10:22               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-26 14:59                 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-26 22:05                   ` Kevin Foley
2020-10-27  7:27                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-17 13:04                       ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-11-24  5:26                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-24 15:57                           ` Stefan Kangas
2020-11-25  7:01                             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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