From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Customize buttons that change user's customfileshouldaskforconfirmation Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:07:14 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <200502162307.j1GN7EB22943@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <00e301c509c1$9c761690$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <018201c5132c$d1cd7940$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <02a701c5142a$c3058cf0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <200502161444.j1GEis714078@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <02c701c5144b$020175c0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108595463 7518 80.91.229.2 (16 Feb 2005 23:11:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:11:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 17 00:11:02 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D1YI7-0001jI-Mg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:09:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D1YY7-0000Uc-LD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:25:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D1YXM-0000Rg-NO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:24:53 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D1YXH-0000OZ-AE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:24:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D1YXH-0000Ns-4W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:24:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D1YI7-0002YA-TY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:09:08 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1GN959N018208; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:09:05 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j1GN7EB22943; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:07:14 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se In-reply-to: <02c701c5144b$020175c0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> (lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se) 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:33558 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33558 Lennart Borgman wrote: > I thought that every option would require confirmation. > > You mean every whole-buffer button? It would be really annoying if > just setting or saving an individual option would ask for confirmation. Yes, that was the context. This is one of the proposed changes I do agree with. I never use the whole-buffer buttons, but after setting custom-file to a junk file (this is one instance where setting custom-file in a running Emacs _is_ useful), I noticed that it is way to easy to accidentally click on these buttons or accidentally hit return with point accidentally on them. I believe that confirmation should be asked, dired style, with a list of affected options. This situation has existed for a long time now, so I do not believe that it is imperative to do this before the release and I believe that it is better to wait. This is a clearly implementable and limited change if we would decide to do it. If we decide to do it after the release, then I believe that there is no sense in discussing implementation details now. Sincerely, Luc.