From: Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "Björn Bidar" <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de>,
74637@debbugs.gnu.org, "Stefan Kangas" <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#74637: [PATCH] Make view-read-only behave like view-file
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 08:16:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yp1ikrzfv0v.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86zflc27dl.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:01:10 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de>
>> Cc: 74637@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 12:06:11 +0200
>>
>> >> > That's an incompatible behavior change. Is that justified? How can
>> >> > we be sure that everyone agrees with your interpretation of this mode?
>> >>
>> >> All other view-file like modes behave like this, you view the file and
>> >> leave the file with q.
>> >
>> > That doesn't change the fact that view-mode didn't behave like that,
>> > until now.
>>
>> View-mode isn't change outside of the specific situation of opening a
>> file which isn't writable.
>
> It's still a significant change. Killing a buffer is not a minor
> think, and restoring it is not always easy, or even possible (e.g.,
> the file could have been deleted in the meantime).
>
> My opinion is that if we install this, we need to provide some way of
> getting the previous behavior back, for those who may want it.
>
> Stefan and Andrea, WDYT?
Agree with your position.
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2024-12-02 12:29 ` bug#74637: [PATCH] Make view-read-only behave like view-file Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-02 18:08 ` Björn Bidar via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
[not found] ` <87ttbmj6tt.fsf@>
2024-12-02 19:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-03 10:06 ` Björn Bidar via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
[not found] ` <87mshdjd2k.fsf@>
2024-12-03 14:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-03 14:25 ` Visuwesh
2024-12-03 19:33 ` Björn Bidar via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-12-03 19:39 ` Björn Bidar via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
[not found] ` <874j3kimjv.fsf@>
2024-12-03 19:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-04 13:16 ` Andrea Corallo [this message]
2024-12-05 2:15 ` Sean Whitton
2024-12-01 20:40 Björn Bidar via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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