From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] When deleting in bookmark menu, prompt for confirmation. Date: Mon, 03 May 2021 19:25:37 +0300 Message-ID: <834kfj7pj2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87a6pcqy7s.fsf@red-bean.com> <83czu86o46.fsf@gnu.org> <835z006jpl.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32647"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 03 18:27:09 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ldbPY-0008NF-Dk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 03 May 2021 18:27:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43626 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ldbPX-00059T-Fd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 03 May 2021 12:27:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37596) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ldbOP-00036e-Ba for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 May 2021 12:25:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57215) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ldbOO-0007qk-Jr; Mon, 03 May 2021 12:25:56 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1108 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ldbON-0000Mb-4K; Mon, 03 May 2021 12:25:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Mon, 3 May 2021 10:43:29 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." 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:268823 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Date: Mon, 3 May 2021 10:43:29 -0500 > Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > Questions that pop where previously Emacs did something silently can > > be annoying, which is why I'd prefer to turn this off by default. If > > someone wants the new behavior, they can enable it. > > That's fair enough. To me, the danger of accidentally deleting a > bookmarks still seems more important. On the one hand, we have lived > with that for a long time, OTOH that is no reason not to try to do > better. My point is that it is safer to start with the existing behavior, and "do better" as an opt-in feature. Later, if enough people like this new behavior, we can make it the default. Changing the default behavior is 100% justified only when the old behavior is a clear bug, IMO.