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Re: C-x C-b and C-x C-f bugging about confirmation
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Chong Yidong |
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Re: C-x C-b and C-x C-f bugging about confirmation |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:07:53 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Sam Steingold <address@hidden> writes:
> I often have dozens of buffers open, including "foo.lisp" and "foos/"
> and completion is not the panacea.
> it IS a big deal to have to kill the buffer:
> with confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer = t:
> C-x b fo TAB [expands to "foo"] RET [confirm?] . TAB RET ==> foo.lisp
> with confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer = nil:
> C-x b fo TAB [expands to "foo"] RET [new buffer] C-x k RET C-x b Up
> . TAB RET ==> foo.lisp
Sure, there are usage patterns that are going to be helped by this
change in defaults; and there are usage patterns that are going to be
hindered. But I don't think it's obvious that either dominate. Because
of that, this feature's inconsistency with the old minibuffer behavior
indicates that the default should be nil, I think. Unless someone can
come up with a better way to do this.
Another point: for find-file, we have C-x C-v (find-alternative-file),
which provides an easy way to revisit a file if you visited the wrong
one. So for file-name-completion, at least, this feature is less than
necessary.
- C-x C-b and C-x C-f bugging about confirmation, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2008/11/21
- Re: C-x C-b and C-x C-f bugging about confirmation, Stefan Monnier, 2008/11/21
- Re: C-x C-b and C-x C-f bugging about confirmation, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/11/21
- Re: C-x C-b and C-x C-f bugging about confirmation, Stefan Monnier, 2008/11/21
- Re: C-x C-b and C-x C-f bugging about confirmation, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/11/22
- Re: C-x C-b and C-x C-f bugging about confirmation, Stefan Monnier, 2008/11/22
- Re: C-x C-b and C-x C-f bugging about confirmation, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/11/23
- Re: C-x C-b and C-x C-f bugging about confirmation, Stefan Monnier, 2008/11/23
- Re: C-x C-b and C-x C-f bugging about confirmation, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/11/24
- Re: C-x C-b and C-x C-f bugging about confirmation, Stefan Monnier, 2008/11/24