From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: ams@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: C-x C-b and C-x C-f bugging about confirmation
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:23:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081121212349.GA2089@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8763mhqa6u.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
Hi, Yidong and Stefan, and everybody else!
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:07:53PM -0500, Chong Yidong wrote:
> Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> writes:
> > I often have dozens of buffers open, including "foo.lisp" and "foos/"
> > and completion is not the panacea.
> > it IS a big deal to have to kill the buffer:
> > with confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer = t:
> > C-x b fo TAB [expands to "foo"] RET [confirm?] . TAB RET ==> foo.lisp
> > with confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer = nil:
> > C-x b fo TAB [expands to "foo"] RET [new buffer] C-x k RET C-x b Up
> > . TAB RET ==> foo.lisp
> Sure, there are usage patterns that are going to be helped by this
> change in defaults; and there are usage patterns that are going to be
> hindered. But I don't think it's obvious that either dominate. Because
> of that, this feature's inconsistency with the old minibuffer behavior
> indicates that the default should be nil, I think. Unless someone can
> come up with a better way to do this.
After a tab, how about prompting only when an incomplete completion has
just been <ret>ted?
I've not tried it, but I think having to type another <ret> would
irritate me quite a lot, even though I quite often hit <ret> on an
incomplete completion.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-21 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-21 13:33 C-x C-b and C-x C-f bugging about confirmation Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-11-21 14:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-21 15:46 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-21 15:51 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-21 16:08 ` Sam Steingold
2008-11-21 17:07 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-21 21:23 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2008-11-22 16:12 ` Miles Bader
2008-11-21 18:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-22 3:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-22 10:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-23 3:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-23 11:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-24 3:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-24 7:24 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-11-24 15:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-22 12:18 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-11-22 13:51 ` Ulrich Mueller
2008-11-23 3:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-22 11:35 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-11-21 18:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-21 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-21 19:29 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-21 23:58 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-11-22 3:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-22 10:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-22 1:54 ` Miles Bader
2008-11-22 7:08 ` mail
2008-11-22 8:24 ` Miles Bader
2008-11-21 18:37 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-11-22 11:26 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-11-23 3:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-23 4:44 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-23 11:24 ` Romain Francoise
2008-11-23 12:45 ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-23 13:45 ` Miles Bader
2008-11-23 15:27 ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-23 22:17 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-24 3:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-24 5:21 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-24 15:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-24 19:58 ` mail
2008-11-25 4:03 ` Miles Bader
2008-11-25 15:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-25 20:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-24 11:24 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-11-24 15:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-24 17:52 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-11-28 18:52 ` Romain Francoise
2008-11-28 19:12 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-28 21:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-28 22:27 ` partial-completion-mode (was: C-x C-b and C-x C-f bugging about confirmation) Romain Francoise
2008-11-29 2:48 ` partial-completion-mode Stefan Monnier
2008-11-29 19:44 ` partial-completion-mode Romain Francoise
2008-11-29 20:42 ` partial-completion-mode Stefan Monnier
2008-12-02 12:39 ` C-x C-b and C-x C-f bugging about confirmation Klaus Zeitler
2008-12-02 13:05 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-12-03 12:22 ` Klaus Zeitler
2008-11-22 11:16 ` Gilaras Drakeson
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