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Subject: Re: 2 annoying questions for `find-alternate-file`
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:12:44 +0200
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() Damien Cassou <damien.cassou@gmail.com>
() Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:29:34 +0200

   I propose to replace these 2 questions by just 1 which could be along the
   lines of "Do you really want to do what you asked for?". When the user
   confirms, his changes are lost.

Why not ask this directly?

"Current buffer modified.  Continue, discarding changes?"