From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Popup when buffer file is changed on disk Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 13:24:24 +0000 Message-ID: References: <200502040036.j140atb03430@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <009d01c50bbb$9aa2fd50$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <000c01c50bc5$248dc1e0$6501a8c0@y8h26> <01c50bd6$Blat.v2.4$48866000@zahav.net.il> <001701c50be6$0eb9fa20$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <01c50c1c$Blat.v2.4$88670e40@zahav.net.il> <002801c50c2a$cbce93c0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1107696425 32716 80.91.229.2 (6 Feb 2005 13:27:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 13:27:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , moheb1333@comcast.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 06 14:27:05 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CxmRC-0004fL-U1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2005 14:26:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cxmf8-0004WP-JA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2005 08:41:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Cxmem-0004UN-Jg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2005 08:40:56 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Cxmek-0004TE-Ap for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2005 08:40:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cxmek-0004TB-5e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2005 08:40:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.106.33.237] (helo=outmail.freedom2surf.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CxmP4-0004ov-27; Sun, 06 Feb 2005 08:24:42 -0500 Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonrumney.net (i-195-137-77-250.freedom2surf.net [195.137.77.250]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j16DOenF014405; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 13:24:40 GMT Original-Received: from TONKOTSU-RAMEN (tonkotsu-ramen.jasonrumney.net [10.0.0.28]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EDBCDDE25; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 13:24:39 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: "Lennart Borgman" In-Reply-To: <002801c50c2a$cbce93c0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sun, 6 Feb 2005 10:02:20 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:32944 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:32944 "Lennart Borgman" writes: > I think a popup should be used for this since it is more visible. The dialog code has been waiting for someone to implement it on w32 for years. It would be better to put effort into implementing general dialog support than to create a dialog especially for this purpose. > Emacs should also keep track of when this question was asked last > time (to avoid asking to many times). I don't understand the rationale for this. If Emacs decides it has asked too many times, what should it do?