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bug#55310: 27.2; vc-revert: unhelpful error message when modified buffer
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#55310: 27.2; vc-revert: unhelpful error message when modified buffers exist |
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Mon, 09 May 2022 11:38:26 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:
> I don't think we want to have an interface that offers to kill buffers
> in a loop -- it sounds like something that's really error-prone, which
> is why that code is the way it is, I think. (To make the user make the
> decision themselves explicitly.)
>
> We already support such mechanism I think in several other places,
> like ibuffer, etc.
Sure, but that's a mode to list and act on buffers -- having vc-revert
kill buffers (even after querying the user) would be surprising.
> My main problem is really that it is impossible to know _which_
> buffers are modified, if you have several hundred open in several
> different projects -- in addition to the fact that the error message
> is just wrong ("all buffers" -- it is just some buffers, that are
> marked).
Yes, it would be nice if it actually said which buffers it's talking
about.
> Idea (ideas are cheap): maybe if one could add some sort of
> high-light, or something in vc-dired that shows that this or that file
> has a open buffer that is unmodified, and then the error could be the
> same but just saying that one should check the highlighted buffers.
I think that's a good idea -- perhaps Dmitry has some comments; added to
the CCs.
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