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Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> How can I turn off the aggravating [confirm] plugger I see whenever I
> attempt to open a non-existent file.
>
>   So as to help prevent doing it by mistake when you mistyped.
>   Set confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer to nil to get back the old
>   behavior (or just hit RET twice, of course).
>
> But setting  confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer to nil hasn't turned
> it off for me... maybe something has changed since then?
>
> (I'm running todays cvs of emacs-23)

I can't reproduce this.  Please provide a precise recipe, beginning with
`emacs -Q'.