From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Customize buttons that change user's custom file should ask forconfirmation Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:02:01 +0900 Message-ID: References: <87y8eawgpb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1107137678 359 80.91.229.6 (31 Jan 2005 02:14:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 02:14:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 31 03:14:32 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CvR5E-0002zW-00 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 03:14:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CvRHr-0001HL-0O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:27:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CvRGb-0000ra-9x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:26:17 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CvRGU-0000oj-Q2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:26:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CvRGT-0000iz-Q9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:26:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.206] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CvQt7-0000nB-Ji for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:02:01 -0500 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 36so95857wri for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:02:01 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=TWQfzZ1KvHQ9NwlTYSH4qkku5XjS2+hV6qubJVSBiI8yUgJxXtLthW4zzBLBZHXBoLgy9KGmES2/Ck+nIf/P3M1r8XxYhZPE1oPb+5ZWv06EBoC4YmRszjh1Gt7ypNsJqdaKSrlmSG7YTyJQok83pSU7JSDOQ8Y90RF9eByuaeM= Original-Received: by 10.54.59.15 with SMTP id h15mr87736wra; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:02:01 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.59 with HTTP; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:02:01 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: <87y8eawgpb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:32658 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:32658 > More than that, I think it's The Right Thing to do. (IMNSHO, there should > only ever be *one* way to save changes. E.g. in `cvs' it's `cvs commit'). I agree with you, but I'll note that there does seem to be trend in some quarters towards eliminating the notion of saving altogether, e.g., in Gnome preferences (of course I think this simply yet another step in Gnome's increasing UI bogosity; no doubt they got the idea from somewhere though...). -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.