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From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: juri@linkov.net, 49869@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#49869: Revert buffer? Yes/No/Maybe
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2021 10:06:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ab91551b30eb0b412641@heytings.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h7g5lh05.fsf@gnus.org>


>> There is a new short keybinding to revert the current buffer - just 3 
>> keys: 'C-x x g'.  But then it asks for a confirmation with 4 keys: 'y e 
>> s RET' that is even longer than the command keys. This defeats the 
>> purpose of having the short key sequence. Does 'C-x x g' really need a 
>> confirmation?
>>
>> I propose to revert the buffer immediately after typing 'C-x x g'.
>
> I think I agree...  if the buffer hasn't been changed.  So we could bind 
> it to a new command, like revert-buffer-command, that would call 
> revert-buffer with NOCONFIRM if the buffer hasn't been edited?
>

What about:

(defun revert-buffer-short-confirm (&optional args)
   (interactive (list (not current-prefix-arg)))
   (cl-letf (((symbol-function 'yes-or-no-p) 'y-or-n-p))
     (revert-buffer args)))

(global-set-key (kbd "C-x x g") 'revert-buffer-short-confirm)

?





  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-04 10:06 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 [this message]
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
2021-08-06  6:20         ` Eli Zaretskii

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