From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>,
ams@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-x C-b and C-x C-f bugging about confirmation
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:17:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fxlim6jn.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87abbqmu7u.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:45:41 +0900")
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:
> Alan Mackenzie's tweak to the [Confirm] prompt seems like an excellent
> solution to this problem though.
Yes, I think it's a good idea.
Semantically, it would tie the confirmation to a behavior of completion,
making the "[Confirm]" behavior of RET less unexpected. Also, the
keyboard macro problem would be more or less bypassed since no one would
expect TAB to work reliably in a keyboard macro anyway.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-23 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-21 13:33 C-x C-b and C-x C-f bugging about confirmation Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-11-21 14:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-21 15:46 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-21 15:51 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-21 16:08 ` Sam Steingold
2008-11-21 17:07 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-21 21:23 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-11-22 16:12 ` Miles Bader
2008-11-21 18:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-22 3:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-22 10:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-23 3:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-23 11:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-24 3:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-24 7:24 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-11-24 15:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-22 12:18 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-11-22 13:51 ` Ulrich Mueller
2008-11-23 3:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-22 11:35 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-11-21 18:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-21 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-21 19:29 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-21 23:58 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-11-22 3:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-22 10:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-22 1:54 ` Miles Bader
2008-11-22 7:08 ` mail
2008-11-22 8:24 ` Miles Bader
2008-11-21 18:37 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-11-22 11:26 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-11-23 3:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-23 4:44 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-23 11:24 ` Romain Francoise
2008-11-23 12:45 ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-23 13:45 ` Miles Bader
2008-11-23 15:27 ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-23 22:17 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2008-11-24 3:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-24 5:21 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-24 15:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-24 19:58 ` mail
2008-11-25 4:03 ` Miles Bader
2008-11-25 15:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-25 20:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-24 11:24 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-11-24 15:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-24 17:52 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-11-28 18:52 ` Romain Francoise
2008-11-28 19:12 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-28 21:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-28 22:27 ` partial-completion-mode (was: C-x C-b and C-x C-f bugging about confirmation) Romain Francoise
2008-11-29 2:48 ` partial-completion-mode Stefan Monnier
2008-11-29 19:44 ` partial-completion-mode Romain Francoise
2008-11-29 20:42 ` partial-completion-mode Stefan Monnier
2008-12-02 12:39 ` C-x C-b and C-x C-f bugging about confirmation Klaus Zeitler
2008-12-02 13:05 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-12-03 12:22 ` Klaus Zeitler
2008-11-22 11:16 ` Gilaras Drakeson
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