From: Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unrecoverable data loss
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 10:34:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87abimwv3m.fsf@escher.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1Jxz2c-0006IW-FX@fencepost.gnu.org
On Mon, 19 May 2008 02:40:14 -0400 Richard M Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
> This may deserve to be considered a matter of giving you enough
> rope to hang yourself.
I think it's more like Emacs luring the unsuspecting or forgetful into a
trap. At least this is how I felt when it happened to me as I was
preparing a post with Gnus, did what I described in my OP, was surprised
to see that the links of the inserted text were clickable, and decided
to click the one on the face value, unsuspecting or forgetful as I was
that this would obliterate my post. If I had instead chosen to click
the link on the code point value, it would have popped to a different
buffer and I wouldn't have had to retype my post. Maybe Emacs was just
trying to educate me not to click any link unless I know exactly what
the consequences of doing so are.
> But it would be easy to make some of those
> commands give errors when not in Help mode.
That's the least amount of help I would expect from Help mode.
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-19 8:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-18 18:21 Unrecoverable data loss Stephen Berman
2008-05-18 21:25 ` martin rudalics
2008-05-20 1:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-19 6:40 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-19 8:34 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2008-05-19 16:26 ` Drew Adams
2008-05-20 6:00 ` tomas
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