From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Reload file from disk Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 12:29:24 +0200 Message-ID: <83vaihnm63.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87zi7tdvj5.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510396173 10349 195.159.176.226 (11 Nov 2017 10:29:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 10:29:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Florian Weimer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 11 11:29:26 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eDT2U-0002IX-2x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 11:29:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45084 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDT2b-0008Gi-3U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 05:29:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33830) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDT2V-0008GR-1X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 05:29:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDT2R-0005HI-Qg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 05:29:26 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54520) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDT2R-0005HD-Mg; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 05:29:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1939 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eDT2R-0002dP-0p; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 05:29:23 -0500 In-reply-to: <87zi7tdvj5.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (message from Florian Weimer on Sat, 11 Nov 2017 10:17:18 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:220060 Archived-At: > From: Florian Weimer > Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 10:17:18 +0100 > > | but the visited file name is available through the minibuffer > | history: type M-n to pull it into the minibuffer. > > But over the years, C-x C-f M-n RET started doing more and more > bizarre things. It now inserts the file name at point in the buffer, > which is particularly annoying if you try to reload a ChangeLog file. It does? I cannot reproduce this in "emacs -Q". Could it be that you have some optional package activated which does that? If not, can you show a recipe starting from "emacs -Q" that reproduces the behavior you describe? > And I just noticed that when on a domain name such as example.com, it > will apparently attempt to ping that host. This I can reproduce, and you can disable it by customizing file-name-at-point-functions to a nil value. > Can we please make M-n behave as documented in this context, or even > better, revert to the old C-x C-f RET behavior? One could always > browse the current directory using C-x C-f . RET, which is why never > understood the motivation behind that change. The previous behavior of "C-x C-f RET" was considered confusing and not very useful by many users, so I don't think we want to go back there.