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bug#8180: 24.0.50; verbose, confusing y-or-n-p prompts in `find-file-no-
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Chong Yidong |
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bug#8180: 24.0.50; verbose, confusing y-or-n-p prompts in `find-file-no-select' |
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Date: |
Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:12:16 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> "The file maybe-a-very-long-file-name.jpg is already visited literally,
> meaning no coding system decoding, format conversion, or local variables.
> You have asked to visit it normally,
> but Emacs can only visit a file in one way at a time.
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> Do you want to revisit the file normally now? (y or n) "
In the first place, why can't we simultaneously in the normal way and
literally, in different buffers? Only reason I can think of is that
get-file-buffer currently doesn't distinguish the two types, but we
could add an optional argument to do that.