From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [jidanni@jidanni.org: ffap: if file at point doesn't exist, but its directory does] Date: 19 Feb 2004 09:07:23 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87ad3i667c.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <40318CC7.90001@gnu.org> <87lln11c51.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87y8r0412s.fsf@jidanni.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1077174488 14536 80.91.224.253 (19 Feb 2004 07:08:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 07:08:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 19 08:07:59 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AtiHv-0002tU-00 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:07:59 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AtiHv-0003rN-00 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:07:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AtiHl-0002fg-Vr for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 02:07:49 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AtiHM-0002QF-LK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 02:07:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AtiGc-0001oY-SQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 02:07:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [207.232.27.5] (helo=WST0054) by monty-python.gnu.org with asmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AtiFr-0000h3-EC; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 02:05:51 -0500 Original-To: Dan Jacobson In-reply-to: <87y8r0412s.fsf@jidanni.org> (message from Dan Jacobson on Thu, 19 Feb 2004 03:52:43 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20065 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20065 > From: Dan Jacobson > Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 03:52:43 +0800 > > By the way, it is a rare occasion that one wants to create files when > 1000 times more likely one merely has made a typo, so ffap should not > so readily ask the user "create it?", and instead do other things. Like what, for example? Do you have specific proposals? In my experience, many (most?) programs that deal with files ask for confirmation in the situations where it is unlikely that the user indeed meant what the program thinks she meant. The situation we are discussing sounds like one of those cases.