From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: File menu changes (suggestions)
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:17:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42C0F981.6070205@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87psu7xdgo.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier wrote:
>Rather than change menu entries's names to less "standard" ones, we should
>change their behavior to better match what users expect.
>
>E.g. find-file might require confirmation before opening
>a non-existent file. I'll love such a new feature, seeing how often I do
>"C-x C-f emacs/src/rege TAB RET" only to find myself in "regexp." rather
>than in the "regexp.c" that I intended to open.
>
>
Agree.
>Another option is to prompt for a file name and require confirmation if the
>file already exists. It's a slightly different behavior than those other
>"CUA-style" systems, but unsuspecting users should hopefully not find
>it confusing, which is all we really care about.
>
>I guess I'm just repeating what Miles and Eli have said.
>
>
I too repeat and agree.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-28 7:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-19 23:25 File menu changes (suggestions) Drew Adams
2005-06-20 4:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-20 7:03 ` David Kastrup
2005-06-20 16:53 ` Drew Adams
2005-06-20 20:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-20 20:48 ` Drew Adams
2005-06-21 2:01 ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-21 7:59 ` Mathias Dahl
2005-06-21 9:19 ` Miles Bader
2005-06-26 4:46 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-26 5:29 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-06-26 22:42 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-26 22:52 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-06-26 23:13 ` Drew Adams
2005-06-27 7:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-27 7:37 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-06-27 9:25 ` Miles Bader
2005-06-27 13:29 ` David Kastrup
2005-06-28 4:16 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-26 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-26 18:00 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-06-26 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-26 18:20 ` Drew Adams
2005-06-26 19:41 ` John S. Yates, Jr.
[not found] ` <42BF0E53.2020505@student.lu.se>
2005-06-27 12:51 ` John S. Yates, Jr.
2005-06-27 13:31 ` David Kastrup
2005-06-27 17:47 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-06-28 1:57 ` John S. Yates, Jr.
2005-06-27 13:24 ` David Kastrup
2005-06-27 16:18 ` Drew Adams
2005-06-27 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-27 18:13 ` Drew Adams
2005-06-27 22:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-27 22:33 ` Drew Adams
2005-06-28 4:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-28 6:36 ` David Kastrup
2005-06-26 18:30 ` Jason Rumney
2005-06-27 2:06 ` Miles Bader
2005-06-27 7:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-27 6:31 ` Miles Bader
2005-06-27 13:26 ` David Kastrup
2005-06-27 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-27 9:19 ` Jason Rumney
2005-06-27 9:41 ` Miles Bader
2005-06-27 18:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-27 20:05 ` David Kastrup
2005-06-27 20:47 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-06-27 21:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-27 5:38 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-27 7:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-27 11:40 ` John S. Yates, Jr.
2005-06-27 13:26 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-06-27 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <42C044F3.60606@student.lu.se>
[not found] ` <uzmtbeam9.fsf@gnu.org>
2005-06-27 21:06 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-06-28 18:46 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-28 18:54 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-06-29 16:05 ` Sticks! (was: File menu changes (suggestions)) Drew Adams
2005-06-28 4:17 ` File menu changes (suggestions) Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-28 6:39 ` David Kastrup
2005-06-28 5:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-06-28 7:17 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2005-06-28 10:05 ` John S. Yates, Jr.
2005-06-30 21:30 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-30 22:15 ` Miles Bader
2005-07-01 22:45 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-02 2:32 ` Miles Bader
2005-06-28 15:28 ` Drew Adams
2005-06-28 16:01 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-06-28 19:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-28 21:36 ` Miles Bader
2005-06-28 22:00 ` David Kastrup
2005-06-30 7:40 ` Miles Bader
2005-06-29 3:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-06-29 4:45 ` Miles Bader
2005-06-29 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-29 23:46 ` Miles Bader
2005-06-30 1:44 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-30 5:38 ` David Kastrup
2005-06-29 20:43 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-01 1:45 ` public
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-06-21 15:51 File menu changes (suggestions) / Options menu David Reitter
2005-06-22 12:32 ` File menu changes (suggestions) John S. Yates, Jr.
2005-06-23 0:46 ` Miles Bader
2005-06-23 2:26 ` John S. Yates, Jr.
2005-06-23 2:31 ` Miles Bader
2005-06-23 11:18 ` John S. Yates, Jr.
2005-06-23 11:39 ` Miles Bader
2005-06-24 5:36 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-25 1:24 ` John S. Yates, Jr.
2005-06-25 16:40 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-24 10:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-26 19:04 David Reitter
2005-06-27 5:37 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-27 8:04 LENNART BORGMAN
2005-06-27 9:24 ` Miles Bader
2005-06-27 20:01 ` Johan Bockgård
2005-06-30 8:53 LENNART BORGMAN
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