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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 46783@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46783: Catch mistaken (query-replace "a" "a")
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 11:10:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1lG2Ah-00072d-0w@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o8g7hjfu.5.fsf@jidanni.org>

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  > (query-replace "a" "a") should ask "Are you sure?"
  > Better yet: "Are you nuts?"...

Emacs should not say such mean things to users.
It should follow the Kind Communication Guidelines.

It could say, "Are you serious?"

But that has a flaw: it fails to say what the concrete issue is.  We
can't assume the user will figure this out from a vague expression of
doubt, whether kind or not.  Emavs must inform per.

So it could say, "FROM-STRING and TO-STRING are identical -- are you serious?"

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-27 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-25 22:27 bug#46783: Catch mistaken (query-replace "a" "a") 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-02-26  8:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-26  9:49   ` Robert Pluim
2021-02-27  4:15     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-26 15:59   ` bug#46783: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-27 16:10 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2021-02-27 23:07   ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-02-28  6:17     ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-01  3:52       ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson

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