From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: reverting non-existent file
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 15:58:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpnb6mgs5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83imgy49xb.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 14 May 2020 22:02:24 +0300")
>> Not now, thanks. I think I was confused by the response "revert-buffer"
>> when I knew I'd yet to save it. And yes, my locale is utf-8.
>
> Hmm... maybe we should not suggest reverting if the file doesn't
> exist? Would that make this situation less confusing?
Indeed, I think the confusion was simply introduced by Emacs telling the
user to revert, whereas that operation cannot be performed (and is not
needed), so silencing the message should take care of the root of
the problem.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-14 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-14 16:13 reverting non-existent file Colin Baxter
2020-05-14 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-14 18:52 ` Colin Baxter
2020-05-14 19:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-14 19:54 ` Richard Copley
2020-05-15 5:36 ` Colin Baxter
2020-05-15 7:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-15 6:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-14 19:58 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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