From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: quit-window is broken Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:43:54 +0100 Message-ID: <4921F3AA.6000508@gmx.at> References: <49218C51.4000700@gnu.org> <492195F3.30905@gmx.at> <492197C7.6080908@gnu.org> <4921990E.5080106@gmx.at> <4921BE23.7010706@gnu.org> <4921C2D3.9090800@gmx.at> <4921D754.9040408@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226962374 24098 80.91.229.12 (17 Nov 2008 22:52:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:52:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 17 23:53:57 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L2Cyj-0004s7-3Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:53:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58655 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L2Cxa-0005aW-Nn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:52:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L2CxD-0005Ql-6N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:52:23 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L2CxB-0005PJ-I7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:52:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34279 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L2CxB-0005P5-8Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:52:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:52929) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L2CxA-0000K6-Te for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:52:21 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 17 Nov 2008 22:52:18 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-62-164.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.62.164]) [62.47.62.164] by mail.gmx.net (mp056) with SMTP; 17 Nov 2008 23:52:18 +0100 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+DRJQZacuDPFXAjR6bguSDD2SIQEgySn3ppDMbAi M6p2tSXznKb+iz User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.7 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:105765 Archived-At: >> it would help if there were a user option switch-to-buffer-create-new-buffer >> with values t (like it does not), nil (signal an error) and 'ask (ask for >> a confirmation). > > I'd rather have it use the same new behavior as C-x C-f: if you type in > a non-existing buffer name, the completion requests confirmation. C-x C-f is guided by an option - `find-file-confirm-nonexistent-file'. BTW, we still have that ;; FIXME: This behavior is carried over from the previous C version ;; of pop-to-buffer, but really we should use just ;; `get-buffer' here. issue in `pop-to-buffer'. martin