aggravating confirm plugger

aggravating confirm plugger

[Harry Putnam]

How can I turn off the aggravating [confirm] plugger I see whenever I
attempt to open a non-existent file.

The old thread started in November:
  Subject: C-x C-b and C-x C-f bugging about confirmation
 
 Message-ID: <jwviqqhno6a.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
 
  > why on earth does C-x C-b and C-x C-f ask me to confirm when I wish to
  > open a new buffer/file?

  [Stefan wrote:]
  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)

Re: aggravating confirm plugger

[Chong Yidong]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> 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'.

Re: aggravating confirm plugger

[Harry Putnam]

Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> 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