From: Bob Rogers <rogers-emacs@rgrjr.dyndns.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: C-x C-v considered harmful
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 21:18:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19020.2798.523236.406366@rgr.rgrjr.com> (raw)
I have finally discovered what has been making my *shell* buffers
disappear mysteriously from time to time. It's because I often invoke
vc-dir in the *shell* buffer, in order to take the directory default
from there, but sometimes type "C-x C-v d RET" instead -- too quickly to
realize that I haven't let go of the Ctrl key fast enough. So instead
of vc-dir, I end up in an empty buffer named "d", and *shell* is gone
for good. IMHO, the "C-x C-v" binding to find-alternate-file makes it
much too easy to typo oneself into information loss.
Possible solutions:
1. Bind find-alternate-file to something different. (Probably too
late for that.)
2. Add a "[Confirm]" step if nonexistent, as for selecting files or
buffers with confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer set to t. (Oops; that's
probably too controversial.)
3. Do not bind find-alternate-file to anything at all.
I've adopted the third solution locally, so I will not kick up a fuss
if people want to keep the status quo. But I think it's much less user-
hostile to let those who are knowledgeable enough to want the feature
enable it for themselves, than to let buffers to disappear mysteriously
on the unwary.
-- Bob Rogers
http://www.rgrjr.com/
next reply other threads:[~2009-07-02 1:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-02 1:18 Bob Rogers [this message]
2009-07-02 2:39 ` C-x C-v considered harmful Miles Bader
2009-07-02 3:10 ` Bob Rogers
2009-07-02 6:48 ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-07-02 15:17 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-03 1:09 ` Bob Rogers
2009-07-03 3:19 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-03 20:33 ` Bob Rogers
2009-07-03 22:23 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-04 23:16 ` Bob Rogers
2009-07-05 7:13 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-06 0:39 ` Bob Rogers
2009-07-06 1:40 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-07 10:39 ` Johan Bockgård
2009-07-05 10:18 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-05 14:56 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-05 0:05 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-05 7:10 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-06 15:05 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-06 15:59 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-07 10:05 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-06 12:04 ` Robert J. Chassell
2009-07-06 23:49 ` Juri Linkov
2009-07-07 1:07 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-08 0:32 ` Juri Linkov
2009-07-08 23:28 ` Juri Linkov
2009-07-09 16:09 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-09 22:10 ` Juri Linkov
2009-07-09 22:26 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-09 22:46 ` Juri Linkov
2009-07-09 23:21 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-10 4:05 ` Bob Rogers
2009-07-13 20:05 ` Juri Linkov
2009-07-16 21:57 ` Juri Linkov
2009-07-03 2:40 ` M Jared Finder
2009-07-03 2:57 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-03 19:23 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-03 20:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-07-03 20:56 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-03 13:55 ` Markus Triska
2009-07-05 22:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-05 22:42 ` Bob Rogers
2009-07-11 10:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-14 2:45 ` Bob Rogers
2009-07-14 18:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-02 21:03 ` Stefan Monnier
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