From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andrea Monaco <andrea.monaco@autistici.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: When suggesting a file recovery, emacs should maybe check for actual changes
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2022 17:30:17 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o7uu1eo6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tu4m71x3.fsf@autistici.org> (message from Andrea Monaco on Sun, 02 Oct 2022 16:09:12 +0200)
> From: Andrea Monaco <andrea.monaco@autistici.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2022 16:09:12 +0200
>
>
> > Why is it a problem that they are identical?
>
> Because in that case there's nothing to recover, so emacs is suggesting
> a meaningless operation; also, the user will needlessly worry about lost
> data.
Just restore the file, and all those problems is gone.
Why risk false negatives in a feature that must be 110% reliable?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-02 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-02 13:33 When suggesting a file recovery, emacs should maybe check for actual changes Andrea Monaco
2022-10-02 13:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-02 14:08 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-02 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-02 15:07 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-02 15:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-02 15:53 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-02 15:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-02 14:09 ` Andrea Monaco
2022-10-02 14:30 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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