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bug#46783: Catch mistaken (query-replace "a" "a")
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
bug#46783: Catch mistaken (query-replace "a" "a") |
Date: |
Sat, 27 Feb 2021 11:10:23 -0500 |
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> (query-replace "a" "a") should ask "Are you sure?"
> Better yet: "Are you nuts?"...
Emacs should not say such mean things to users.
It should follow the Kind Communication Guidelines.
It could say, "Are you serious?"
But that has a flaw: it fails to say what the concrete issue is. We
can't assume the user will figure this out from a vague expression of
doubt, whether kind or not. Emavs must inform per.
So it could say, "FROM-STRING and TO-STRING are identical -- are you serious?"
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Dr Richard Stallman
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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