From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13561: 24.3.50; `dired-do-run-mail' should ask for confirmation first Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:46:27 -0800 Message-ID: <156A4D030E73416BA1AE3656DD30C1F7@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1359226013 12954 80.91.229.3 (26 Jan 2013 18:46:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 18:46:53 +0000 (UTC) To: 13561@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 26 19:47:12 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TzAmS-0004oz-I2 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jan 2013 19:47:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49713 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TzAmA-0007zO-TU for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sat, 26 Jan 2013 12:46:34 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/71.202.147.44) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:46:33 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: Ac379XKQTyKvAWGRQJKlAhZW75BQgg== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:70353 Archived-At: Here's the problem: `V' is bound to `dired-do-run-mail'. And it is too easy to accidentally hit `V'. I just hit it instead of `B', for instance, after marking some files to byte-compile. Instead of asking for confirmation, it went off and tried to do its thing, ultimately resulting in an error message etc. In general, commands that act on the marked files should require some user interaction before doing their thing. Often it is enough that they prompt for some info, for the user to at least be able to see whether s?he has got the right command. If they do not prompt for any info, then they should, in general, ask for confirmation. In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2013-01-25 on ODIEONE Bzr revision: 111604 eliz@gnu.org-20130125143821-1ykj7ia1qjojjjnp Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 Configured using: `configure --with-gcc (4.7) --no-opt --enable-checking --cflags -IC:/Devel/emacs/build/include --ldflags -LC:/Devel/emacs/build/lib'