From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Patch] Behavior of dired when there already is a dired buffer of the same directory Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:06:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: <6fa54e4e0808311550p7b2524dbg8c903904a09d4474@mail.gmail.com> <87prnohfcw.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <6fa54e4e0808311753j3cef9618k514ef0691b2e6d5d@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220238391 10760 80.91.229.12 (1 Sep 2008 03:06:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 03:06:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Antoine Levitt , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 01 05:07:25 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 1KZzlD-0007Zc-1t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:07:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36995 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZzkE-0001lH-1r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:06:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KZzkA-0001kz-JA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:06:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KZzk9-0001km-96 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:06:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35995 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZzk9-0001kj-3u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:06:17 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:24417 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KZzk4-0002Sh-Mv; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:06:12 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AuYEAH/4ukhFxJrH/2dsb2JhbACBZbVCgWmBBw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.32,304,1217822400"; d="scan'208";a="26179515" Original-Received: from 69-196-154-199.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.196.154.199]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 31 Aug 2008 23:06:12 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 512F6B41E9; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:06:11 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:47:55 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: 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:103351 Archived-At: > It's also much more annoying for one's command flow to be interrupted by > an unexpected question prompt, and that can cause real problems in cases > where the user types commands quickly. > In general, prompting the user for optional information is a bad idea, > and this is especially true for "asynchronous" events. I agree, but it's also true that we do exactly that for plain files, which is a much more common case, so this same argument would call for a similar change to plain files. Stefan