Re: Strange use of (run-with-timer 0 nil #'foo args) in do-after-load-evaluation

[Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>]

>> Please try the example I sent earlier.  It feels quite naturally
>> typing 'M-p RET' to repeat a previous y/n answer.
>
> I think this is a misfeature.  Imagine a user answering "Do you want
> to save important file X before closing?" and is used to always having
> "y" in her history.  This time, "n" was the first item in history
> because of some previous but now forgotten invocation the night
> before.  But the user hits "M-p RET" by habit, expecting that to mean
> "y", and ends up discarding important work.
>
> Using this puts a cognitive load on the user if she doesn't want to
> make mistakes.

There are many things in Emacs that might go wrong when used carelessly.

Sometimes I run such dangerous shell commands:

  M-! rm * RET

then later I forget about it in the shell-command history and type:

  M-! M-p RET

The only solution is to be more careful.

With more freedom comes more responsibility.