From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Ivan Kanis <ivan.kanis@googlemail.com>
Cc: emacs devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] show difference when recovering file
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:50:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbods4lmw.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k3sg7ji1.fsf@kanis.fr> (Ivan Kanis's message of "Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:04:22 +0100")
>> BTW, the way the user can do it currently, is to say "yes" to recover,
>> and then use M-x diff-buffer-with-file RET to decide whether or not
>> recovering is a good idea.
> It's too convoluted for me, I never remember how to do it when I need it.
I agree it's not very discoverable and it's rare enough to be hard to
remember.
>> Rather than always popping up a *diff* buffer, we could also change the
>> prompt from "yes/no" to "yes/no/diff".
> We could have the same UI as implemented in
> 'save-some-buffers-action-alist' one key for:
> y yes
> n no
> d for diff
Right, that's the kind of thing I had in mind, indeed.
I'm wondering why we have yes/no instead of y/n right now, tho.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-17 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-16 16:56 [PATCH] show difference when recovering file Ivan Kanis
2012-12-16 18:12 ` martin rudalics
2012-12-16 21:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-17 10:53 ` Ivan Kanis
2012-12-17 14:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-17 16:04 ` Ivan Kanis
2012-12-17 17:50 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-12-17 20:27 ` Ivan Kanis
2012-12-17 17:03 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-12-17 23:15 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-12-17 17:35 ` Achim Gratz
2012-12-17 9:27 ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-17 11:16 ` Ivan Kanis
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