From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-x C-v considered harmful Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:03:45 +0200 Message-ID: References: <19020.2798.523236.406366@rgr.rgrjr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246568676 4263 80.91.229.12 (2 Jul 2009 21:04:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 21:04:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Bob Rogers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 02 23:04:29 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MMTSH-0005S2-15 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:04:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49503 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MMTSG-0003QM-Hu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:04:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MMTRh-0002xI-1G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:03:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MMTRc-0002qe-3y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:03:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60034 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MMTRb-0002qR-UW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:03:47 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-04.vtx.ch ([212.147.0.65]:40001) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MMTRb-0001Ln-Cr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:03:47 -0400 Original-Received: from alfajor.home (dyn.83-228-178-011.dsl.vtx.ch [83.228.178.11]) by smtp-04.vtx.ch (VTX Services SA) with ESMTP id A8A6029AE25; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 23:03:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by alfajor.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5EB7764347; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 23:03:45 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <19020.2798.523236.406366@rgr.rgrjr.com> (Bob Rogers's message of "Wed, 1 Jul 2009 21:18:38 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.94 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:111924 Archived-At: > from there, but sometimes type "C-x C-v d RET" instead -- too quickly to [...] > 2. Add a "[Confirm]" step if nonexistent, as for selecting files or > buffers with confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer set to t. (Oops; that's > probably too controversial.) Actually, I think it's a bug that C-x C-v doesn't obey confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer. Stefan