From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Unrecoverable data loss Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 09:26:36 -0700 Message-ID: <000c01c8b9cd$1c4d6e90$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> References: <87zlqnqxrl.fsf@escher.local.home> <87abimwv3m.fsf@escher.local.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1211214468 12465 80.91.229.12 (19 May 2008 16:27:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 16:27:48 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Stephen Berman'" , Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 19 18:28:27 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jy8Dn-0006Y8-8h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 May 2008 18:28:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49325 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jy8D3-0007CY-5m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 May 2008 12:27:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jy8Cy-0007CT-8p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 May 2008 12:27:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jy8Cv-0007CH-Vm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 May 2008 12:27:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35295 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jy8Cv-0007CD-Qv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 May 2008 12:27:29 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:47335) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jy8Cv-0005HA-H7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 May 2008 12:27:29 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw2.us.oracle.com (agmgw2.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.213]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id m4JGRNk6010462; Mon, 19 May 2008 11:27:23 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by agmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m4J3mMug019329; Mon, 19 May 2008 10:27:22 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3674770631211214397; Mon, 19 May 2008 09:26:37 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by bhmail.oracle.com (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 19 May 2008 09:26:36 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-reply-to: <87abimwv3m.fsf@escher.local.home> Thread-Index: Aci5izpQJky+hVA+RLuhuMpEwKE8qwAQThYA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:97394 Archived-At: > 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.