From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Stephen Berman'" <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net>, <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Unrecoverable data loss
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 09:26:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000c01c8b9cd$1c4d6e90$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87abimwv3m.fsf@escher.local.home>
> see that the links of the inserted text were clickable, and decided
> to click the one on the face value, unsuspecting or forgetful as I was
> that this would obliterate my post. If I had instead chosen to click
> the link on the code point value, it would have popped to a different
> buffer and I wouldn't have had to retype my post. Maybe Emacs was
> just trying to educate me not to click any link unless I know exactly
> what the consequences of doing so are.
>
> > But it would be easy to make some of those
> > commands give errors when not in Help mode.
>
> That's the least amount of help I would expect from Help mode.
Actually, I wonder if *Help* couldn't have undo enabled. No flames please; it's
just a naive question.
I sometimes do C-x C-q and edit some *Help* text to use it elsewhere, and undo
would be useful during such editing. If enabling undo would have negative
consequences, then forget about it - just wondering.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-19 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-18 18:21 Unrecoverable data loss Stephen Berman
2008-05-18 21:25 ` martin rudalics
2008-05-20 1:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-19 6:40 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-19 8:34 ` Stephen Berman
2008-05-19 16:26 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-05-20 6:00 ` tomas
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