From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: reinhard.kotucha@web.de, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: find-file and backward-kill-word
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 22:15:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1CHYfo-0001Wo-EC@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x5is9gyst2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:22:49 +0200)
I don't want complex operations to merrily complete "successfully"
after having done a number of incomplete steps. Improving the error
message is ok, but not at the cost of dropping the error.
I agree.
It was done this way on the idea that there's no harm in putting the
text in the kill ring before getting the error. If people think that
is confusing, we could change it to get the error before altering the
kill ring when kill-read-only-ok is nil.
But this feature was introduced in 1994, so people are apparently
not complaining much. Therefore let's leave it alone.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-13 2:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-11 21:00 find-file and backward-kill-word Reinhard Kotucha
2004-10-12 0:59 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-12 8:31 ` David Kastrup
2004-10-12 13:06 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-12 13:22 ` David Kastrup
2004-10-13 2:15 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2004-10-12 14:16 ` Alan Shutko
2004-10-12 21:58 ` Reinhard Kotucha
2004-10-13 1:55 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-13 20:45 ` Alan Shutko
2004-10-15 0:26 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-16 1:00 ` Stefan Daschek
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