From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 8180@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8180: 24.0.50; verbose, confusing y-or-n-p prompts in `find-file-no-select'
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:12:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fwr1f6ov.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <435FEA4267C54CB2B558397723E571FE@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 5 Mar 2011 07:16:35 -0800")
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> "The file maybe-a-very-long-file-name.jpg is already visited literally,
> meaning no coding system decoding, format conversion, or local variables.
> You have asked to visit it normally,
> but Emacs can only visit a file in one way at a time.
>
> Do you want to revisit the file normally now? (y or n) "
In the first place, why can't we simultaneously in the normal way and
literally, in different buffers? Only reason I can think of is that
get-file-buffer currently doesn't distinguish the two types, but we
could add an optional argument to do that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-06 0:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-05 15:16 bug#8180: 24.0.50; verbose, confusing y-or-n-p prompts in `find-file-no-select' Drew Adams
2011-03-06 0:12 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2016-04-28 10:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-28 13:41 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-01 17:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-01 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
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