From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-x C-b and C-x C-f bugging about confirmation Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:17:00 -0500 Message-ID: <87fxlim6jn.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> References: <1227274391.618443.2559.nullmailer@null> <1227353165.501338.3377.nullmailer@null> <87bpw6vcm3.fsf@jurta.org> <87abbqmu7u.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227479035 18492 80.91.229.12 (23 Nov 2008 22:23:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:23:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , ams@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 23 23:24:58 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L4NNx-0007Qu-6G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:24:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60168 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L4NMn-0001oI-BR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:23:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L4NMh-0001o9-VM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:23:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L4NMf-0001no-EO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:23:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35338 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L4NMf-0001nl-7w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:23:37 -0500 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]:35077) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L4NFz-0004JZ-5l; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:16:43 -0500 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 49F0F57E04B; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:17:00 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87abbqmu7u.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:45:41 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:106045 Archived-At: Miles Bader 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.