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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: ams@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-x C-b and C-x C-f bugging about confirmation
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:51:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hc616ps6.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vduhm69c.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (Chong Yidong's message of "Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:46:23 -0500")

Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:

> I don't think it's a good default.  With minibuffer completion, typing
> mistakes don't happen all that often, and it can be disconcerting to
> have a RET rejected.  You might argue that it's no big deal to type a
> second RET, but it's similarly no big deal to kill the buffer and try
> again in the very few occasions that you make a mistake.  So this looks
> like creeping featuritis if it's enabled by default.

BTW, it's also worth pointing out that most programs don't prompt the
user specially when the user uses an "open file" feature to select a
non-existing file (think about the GTK "open file" dialog).  So people
don't expect to be prompted for such a reason.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-21 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-21 13:33 C-x C-b and C-x C-f bugging about confirmation Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-11-21 14:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-21 15:46   ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-21 15:51     ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2008-11-21 16:08     ` Sam Steingold
2008-11-21 17:07       ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-21 21:23         ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-11-22 16:12           ` Miles Bader
2008-11-21 18:40       ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-22  3:23         ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-22 10:13           ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-23  3:39             ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-23 11:25               ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-24  3:08                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-24  7:24                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-11-24 15:50                     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-22 12:18           ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-11-22 13:51           ` Ulrich Mueller
2008-11-23  3:50             ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-22 11:35       ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-11-21 18:03     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-21 18:51       ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-21 19:29       ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-21 23:58         ` Tassilo Horn
2008-11-22  3:30         ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-22 10:13           ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-22  1:54       ` Miles Bader
2008-11-22  7:08       ` mail
2008-11-22  8:24         ` Miles Bader
2008-11-21 18:37   ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-11-22 11:26   ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-11-23  3:49     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-23  4:44       ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-23 11:24         ` Romain Francoise
2008-11-23 12:45       ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-23 13:45         ` Miles Bader
2008-11-23 15:27           ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-23 22:17           ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-24  3:18           ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-24  5:21             ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-24 15:52               ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-24 19:58                 ` mail
2008-11-25  4:03               ` Miles Bader
2008-11-25 15:21                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-25 20:09                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-24 11:24       ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-11-24 15:56         ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-24 17:52           ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-11-28 18:52             ` Romain Francoise
2008-11-28 19:12               ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-28 21:06               ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-28 22:27                 ` partial-completion-mode (was: C-x C-b and C-x C-f bugging about confirmation) Romain Francoise
2008-11-29  2:48                   ` partial-completion-mode Stefan Monnier
2008-11-29 19:44                     ` partial-completion-mode Romain Francoise
2008-11-29 20:42                       ` partial-completion-mode Stefan Monnier
2008-12-02 12:39                 ` C-x C-b and C-x C-f bugging about confirmation Klaus Zeitler
2008-12-02 13:05                   ` Tassilo Horn
2008-12-03 12:22                     ` Klaus Zeitler
2008-11-22 11:16 ` Gilaras Drakeson

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