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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:256484 Archived-At: > >> may I ask that if you click on "don't display again", > >> the UI displays a brief explanation that it created > >> the file and where it is? > >> > >> It's a pet peeve of mine because in many applications > >> I have selected such options accidentally and then > >> had no way to find out how to get back to the original state. > > > > Yup. It's a pain to have to google later to > > find out how to set/unset/reset some setting > > (preference). > > > > Particularly a setting you chose (especially > > if forced to choose) on the fly when you > > brought up an app for the first time. >=20 > I don't think a transient display of the explanation > will fundamentally change the situation. I agree. I was speaking about the problem (pet peeve), not any particular proposed solution. In general, Emacs is good at letting you find things out about it, including how to undo damage or restore things.