From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs 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 Message-ID: <87fwr1f6ov.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <435FEA4267C54CB2B558397723E571FE@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299371852 19157 80.91.229.12 (6 Mar 2011 00:37:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 00:37:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 8180@debbugs.gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 06 01:37:28 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pw1yR-0004aa-5N for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 01:37:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36103 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pw1yQ-00010o-IP for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:37:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58951 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pw1xv-0000nF-Oq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:36:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pw1xu-00010t-Kg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:36:55 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:36672) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pw1xu-00010i-CX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:36:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pw1an-0004Av-Mq; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:13:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Chong Yidong Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:13:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 8180 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 8180-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B8180.129937034216003 (code B ref 8180); Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:13:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 8180) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Mar 2011 00:12:22 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pw1aA-0004A3-CY for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:12:22 -0500 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-06.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.147]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pw1a9-00049s-Hz for 8180@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:12:21 -0500 Original-Received: from furball (c-71-192-165-84.hsd1.ct.comcast.net [71.192.165.84]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-06.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p260CF2Q015104 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 5 Mar 2011 19:12:15 -0500 Original-Received: by furball (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CDD0916051F; Sat, 5 Mar 2011 19:12:16 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <435FEA4267C54CB2B558397723E571FE@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 5 Mar 2011 07:16:35 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.147 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:13:01 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:44679 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" 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.