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Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions
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Juanma Barranquero |
Subject: |
Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:41:33 +0200 |
On 6/28/07, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
WHY?!?!? WHY would it be convenient? PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, explain
in what respect it would help you at all save time, confusion or
whatever. _Why_ can't you explain what gains you would draw from such
a message?
David, I explained many messages ago, and you're refusing to listen:
If I do a command, and the result of this command is irrelevant, I
consider it an error. I want a warning (and please don't explain me
again the differences between warnings and errors: I understood it
already the first time I used "warning", but I didn't have the insight
to be very precise in my use of Emacs terminology because I didn't
imagine that would turn into that kind of discussion).
You're arguing that is not irrelevant because the mode gets changed
and, in some situations, it is even useful. I don't have *any* useful
day to day activity with Emacs where switching to overwrite in a
read-only buffer is useful, so *I* want to get a message telling me
that I'm doing something superfluous. You're arguing that the PgUp
command case is different (and yes, I understand quite well how it
works, thanks), but it is *not*: PgUp could refuse to work without
alerting the user, and nothing would be different *at all*, except
that the user would take a few seconds to notice what was he doing
wrong. The message in the PgUp case is *just* *to* *say* *the* *user*
*he's* *doing* *something* *not* *useful*.
Juanma
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, (continued)
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/27
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, David Kastrup, 2007/06/27
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/27
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, David Kastrup, 2007/06/27
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/27
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, David Kastrup, 2007/06/28
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/28
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, David Kastrup, 2007/06/28
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/28
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, David Kastrup, 2007/06/28
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions,
Juanma Barranquero <=
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, David Kastrup, 2007/06/28
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/28
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, David Kastrup, 2007/06/28
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/28
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, Andreas Schwab, 2007/06/28
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/28
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, Andreas Schwab, 2007/06/28
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/28
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, David Kastrup, 2007/06/28
- Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions, Stefan Monnier, 2007/06/28