From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Damien Cassou'" <damien.cassou@gmail.com>, <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: 'Juri Linkov' <juri@jurta.org>
Subject: RE: 2 annoying questions for `find-alternate-file`
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 18:27:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A7CDB467FA8F41D599B2C904E1B5212B@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+y5ggibVZgdd0i-Fj76ZU0KcQJhQMGdEKnuuntaBc_qc4Xxqw@mail.gmail.com>
This annoyance was commented on in July (this thread). A bug (#12487) was
independently filed for the same annoyance in September.
Neither the emacs-devel thread nor the bug has been replied to yet by our
maintainers. This was a very bad change to Emacs - contrary to all good sense
for a UI.
The confusion it introduces will cause users to _lose data_. I, for one, have
almost been tripped up by it multiple times, in spite of the fact that I am well
aware of it now.
Can we please get this awful change reverted or otherwise reversed/fixed?
Several reasonable comments and solutions have been proposed in the bug and
emacs-devel threads. Why is it so hard to get something so simple and so
obviously wrong fixed?
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-07/msg00431.html
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=12487
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-29 1:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-19 16:29 2 annoying questions for `find-alternate-file` Damien Cassou
2012-07-19 18:12 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2012-07-20 10:09 ` Juri Linkov
2012-10-29 1:27 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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