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Re: IDO doesn't honor confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer
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Kim F. Storm |
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Re: IDO doesn't honor confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer |
Date: |
Sat, 09 May 2009 00:53:10 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> writes:
> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>
> Hi Kim,
>
>>> Basically yes, but I like the standard visual feedback and usage much
>>> better, e.g. no y-or-n-p but a [confirm] after the minibuffer input
>>> and another RET finds the nonexistent file or buffer. This is not
>>> disturbing at all, while the y-or-n-p is: No matter my decision, I
>>> always have to move fingers to either y or n.
>>
>> I see - and agree. Try the following patch instead:
>
> Yes, this is much better. But there's one difference with the standard
> behavior. Ido always wants a confirmation if the file or buffer doesn't
> exist. The default setting of confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer is
> after-completion, and then you are asked only to confirm if the last
> command was a completion command. The current ido behavior equivalent
> to setting this variable to t (which I do anyway). But probably ido
> should be as compatible with the standard behavior as far as possible.
In a way ido is always trying to complete what you type, so in what
ido command/key should after-completion apply to ? E.g. TAB is rarely
used in ido (at least I don't use it much).
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- IDO doesn't honor confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer, Tassilo Horn, 2009/05/07
- Re: IDO doesn't honor confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer, Kim F. Storm, 2009/05/07
- Re: IDO doesn't honor confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer, Tassilo Horn, 2009/05/07
- Re: IDO doesn't honor confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer, Kim F. Storm, 2009/05/08
- Re: IDO doesn't honor confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer, Tassilo Horn, 2009/05/08
- Re: IDO doesn't honor confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer,
Kim F. Storm <=
- Re: IDO doesn't honor confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer, Tassilo Horn, 2009/05/08
- Re: IDO doesn't honor confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer, Kim F. Storm, 2009/05/09
- Re: IDO doesn't honor confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer, Stefan Monnier, 2009/05/09
- Re: IDO doesn't honor confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer, Kim F. Storm, 2009/05/10