From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bogus extra RET required when entering filenames (etc)?
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:05:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87od09sb3b.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87myftfu9n.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (Chong Yidong's message of "Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:49:40 -0500")
Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:
Hi!
>> There's a file in /tmp called "/tmp/x.c". I type:
>>
>> C-x C-f /tmp/x.c RET
>>
>> However, instead of visiting the file (which incidentally is already
>> in a buffer), emacs prints " [confirm]" at the end of the prompt, and
>> I have to hit RET again.
>
> This was from the recent introduction of the variable
> confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer---previously
> find-file-confirm-nonexistent-file---which had its default set as t.
> I've checked in a fix to switch the default to nil.
But Miles said the file already existed. Why was he asked for
confirmation then?
Bye,
Tassilo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-21 9:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-21 6:16 bogus extra RET required when entering filenames (etc)? Miles Bader
2008-11-21 6:49 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-21 9:05 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2008-11-21 9:12 ` Miles Bader
2008-11-21 14:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-22 7:01 ` mail
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