From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "ç©ä¸¹å°¼ Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 46783@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46783: Catch mistaken (query-replace "a" "a")
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 11:10:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1lG2Ah-00072d-0w@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o8g7hjfu.5.fsf@jidanni.org>
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> (query-replace "a" "a") should ask "Are you sure?"
> Better yet: "Are you nuts?"...
Emacs should not say such mean things to users.
It should follow the Kind Communication Guidelines.
It could say, "Are you serious?"
But that has a flaw: it fails to say what the concrete issue is. We
can't assume the user will figure this out from a vague expression of
doubt, whether kind or not. Emavs must inform per.
So it could say, "FROM-STRING and TO-STRING are identical -- are you serious?"
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Dr Richard Stallman
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-27 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-25 22:27 bug#46783: Catch mistaken (query-replace "a" "a") 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-02-26 8:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-26 9:49 ` Robert Pluim
2021-02-27 4:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-26 15:59 ` bug#46783: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-27 16:10 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2021-02-27 23:07 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-02-28 6:17 ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-01 3:52 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
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