From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Reverting but keeping undo Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 13:22:08 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87mwrwede7.fsf@wanadoo.es> <878v2w8g3t.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1370021307 30674 80.91.229.3 (31 May 2013 17:28:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 17:28:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 31 19:28:28 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UiT7r-0006Gi-Ob for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 May 2013 19:28:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49186 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UiT7r-0007lU-6O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 May 2013 13:28:27 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="b8816fa7300cd668c1c8ea38fc847e8a"; logging-data="16230"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1//Zg7f4KxKRePxXBRiGl+Rv6FHQ+nQnDc=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oaofaih2E1ODxiOUqUVIUlNtkkg= sha1:CwvAF4q9eVlTzg+z6/W56mtEusk= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:198939 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 31 May 2013 13:28:16 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:91207 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen writes: > Dan Espen writes: > >> Undoing a revert sounds very intuitive to me. > > To me too. > >> And the confirmation dialog on the revert was no fun, >> I had my own solution for bypassing the warning. >> >> I see no reason for any additional warnings. > > To be clear: I don't want an additional prompt for confirmation, just a > short message in the minibuffer, like > > [Undo: undoing `revert-buffer'] > > Because there are cases when the user (I) would want to stop at that > point. > >> I assume this change kills off the old confirmation about reverting. >> (Posting from news:gnu.emacs.help). > > I wonder why this prompt for confirmation was implemented. I mean, you > seldom will type M-x revert-buffer RET by accident... If it's of no use > and everybody hates it, we should indeed consider to remove it, at least > for the interactive case. I always assumed it was because you were losing your undo history making the action one that could not be reversed (undone). -- Dan Espen