From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Strange use of (run-with-timer 0 nil #'foo args) in do-after-load-evaluation
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 01:39:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h83rdtrr.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmnDwrXCBkduQ1nJLXOqq8hZbG9AGoGOfURe=v84Xv7gPA@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Tue, 29 Oct 2019 00:20:30 +0100")
>> Please try the example I sent earlier. It feels quite naturally
>> typing 'M-p RET' to repeat a previous y/n answer.
>
> I think this is a misfeature. Imagine a user answering "Do you want
> to save important file X before closing?" and is used to always having
> "y" in her history. This time, "n" was the first item in history
> because of some previous but now forgotten invocation the night
> before. But the user hits "M-p RET" by habit, expecting that to mean
> "y", and ends up discarding important work.
>
> Using this puts a cognitive load on the user if she doesn't want to
> make mistakes.
There are many things in Emacs that might go wrong when used carelessly.
Sometimes I run such dangerous shell commands:
M-! rm * RET
then later I forget about it in the shell-command history and type:
M-! M-p RET
The only solution is to be more careful.
With more freedom comes more responsibility.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-29 23:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-26 10:14 Strange use of (run-with-timer 0 nil #'foo args) in do-after-load-evaluation Alan Mackenzie
2019-10-26 12:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-26 13:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-26 16:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-27 1:01 ` HaiJun Zhang
2019-10-27 21:57 ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-27 22:29 ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-28 9:41 ` martin rudalics
2019-10-28 2:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-28 10:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-28 22:19 ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-28 23:20 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-29 23:39 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2019-10-29 11:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-29 23:45 ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-29 23:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-30 8:22 ` martin rudalics
2019-10-30 22:10 ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-31 2:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-03 20:50 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-05 22:54 ` bug#38076: Using minibuffer for y-or-n-p Juri Linkov
2019-11-06 22:25 ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-26 14:18 ` Strange use of (run-with-timer 0 nil #'foo args) in do-after-load-evaluation Alan Mackenzie
2019-10-26 15:27 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-10-27 21:51 ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-28 3:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
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