From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: aggravating confirm plugger Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:19:22 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <878wp0nsol.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87hc3onuyu.fsf@newsguy.com> <87skn8w9lq.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232842794 32122 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2009 00:19:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:19:54 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 25 01:21:07 2009 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 1LQskL-0006Vg-VC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:21:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54258 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LQsj4-0005FD-Ad for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:19:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LQsj0-0005Eq-7T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:19:42 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LQsix-0005Ee-S3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:19:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38706 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LQsix-0005Eb-NP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:19:39 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:39554 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LQsix-0003PZ-BW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:19:39 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LQsiq-0007rr-CO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:19:32 +0000 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:19:32 +0000 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:19:32 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1SoytBjFUFNB4iWEnCS2ukYQhj4= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:108209 Archived-At: Chong Yidong writes: > Harry Putnam writes: > >> How can I turn off the aggravating [confirm] plugger I see whenever I >> attempt to open a non-existent file. >> >> So as to help prevent doing it by mistake when you mistyped. >> Set confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer to nil to get back the old >> behavior (or just hit RET twice, of course). >> >> But setting confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer to nil hasn't turned >> it off for me... maybe something has changed since then? >> >> (I'm running todays cvs of emacs-23) > > I can't reproduce this. Please provide a precise recipe, beginning with > `emacs -Q'. Sorry, I can't either... apparently I'd gotten distracted and neglected to run `make install' after ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/src/cvs/test && make And so my symlink at /usr/local/bin/emacs was still linked to something earlier ... not sure how much earlier but probably at least several wks. Sorry for the line noise