From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: save-some-buffers' "^R" sends user to recursive edit view mode anxiety Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 09:00:30 +0800 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87d6hgm9xt.fsf@jidanni.org> Reply-To: Dan Jacobson NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1055652307 12908 80.91.224.249 (15 Jun 2003 04:45:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 04:45:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 15 06:45:05 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19RPO4-0003Ls-00 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 2003 06:45:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19RPQC-0001m0-Cu for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2003 00:47:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19RPOH-0000Qe-R2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2003 00:45:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19RPNj-0008S9-NP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2003 00:44:44 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19RPNc-0008LM-1V for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2003 00:44:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19RPKy-00037L-00 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 2003 06:41:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19RPKv-00036d-00 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 2003 06:41:49 +0200 Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:5306 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:5306 save-some-buffers has a choice: "^R to display the current buffer;" This infact invokes a recursive edit, which just clutters up the modeline with brackets confusing the user and we are presented the buffer in view mode: huh, I was just editing that file, now it is beeping when I type some keys, the user feels. Why not just have a choice that will abort save-some-buffers and just visit the buffer that save-some-buffers is asking about in the minibuffer. When the user is thru editing that file, he can do save-some-buffers again. Also, regarding the "^R to display the current buffer;" message itself. It must have been real early emacs. Don't put a real live ^R there, some of us cut and paste into gnus and then gnus tells us there's illegible text and we end up having to repair it on the outgoing spool as gnus wasn't forthcoming about where it was enough. A "^" . "R" is better, but "C-r" is more consistent. -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780