From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: File menu changes (suggestions) Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:17:21 +0200 Message-ID: <42C0F981.6070205@student.lu.se> References: <87psu7xdgo.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119943453 9053 80.91.229.2 (28 Jun 2005 07:24:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 07:24:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 28 09:24:05 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnARg-0007T4-3k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:23:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnAZS-0007tF-SS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 03:31:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DnAUv-0006mG-HH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 03:27:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DnAUs-0006lC-VZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 03:27:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnAUq-0006ZY-R2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 03:27:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.159] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DnAQ3-0008GX-0W; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 03:22:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.205.6) by pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 42B9371700109072; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:17:21 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: <87psu7xdgo.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:39764 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39764 Stefan Monnier wrote: >Rather than change menu entries's names to less "standard" ones, we should >change their behavior to better match what users expect. > >E.g. find-file might require confirmation before opening >a non-existent file. I'll love such a new feature, seeing how often I do >"C-x C-f emacs/src/rege TAB RET" only to find myself in "regexp." rather >than in the "regexp.c" that I intended to open. > > Agree. >Another option is to prompt for a file name and require confirmation if the >file already exists. It's a slightly different behavior than those other >"CUA-style" systems, but unsuspecting users should hopefully not find >it confusing, which is all we really care about. > >I guess I'm just repeating what Miles and Eli have said. > > I too repeat and agree.