From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
To: "Antoine Levitt" <smeuuh@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] Behavior of dired when there already is a dired buffer of the same directory
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:47:55 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buowshw37l0.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6fa54e4e0808311753j3cef9618k514ef0691b2e6d5d@mail.gmail.com> (Antoine Levitt's message of "Mon, 1 Sep 2008 02:53:06 +0200")
"Antoine Levitt" <smeuuh@gmail.com> writes:
> That's a good point. However, the user is clearly offered a choice, and I
> think it would be better if this choice was made explicit by a question,
> rather than just a suggestion
It's also much more annoying for one's command flow to be interrupted by
an unexpected question prompt, and that can cause real problems in cases
where the user types commands quickly.
In general, prompting the user for optional information is a bad idea,
and this is especially true for "asynchronous" events.
-Miles
--
Run away! Run away!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-01 2:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-31 22:50 [Patch] Behavior of dired when there already is a dired buffer of the same directory Antoine Levitt
2008-08-31 23:02 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-01 17:47 ` Mathias Dahl
2008-09-01 18:00 ` David House
2008-09-01 0:36 ` Miles Bader
2008-09-01 0:53 ` Antoine Levitt
2008-09-01 1:11 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-01 1:26 ` Antoine Levitt
2008-09-01 2:47 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2008-09-01 3:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-01 7:25 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-02 1:08 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-02 14:00 ` Antoine Levitt
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