Re: [Patch] Behavior of dired when there already is a dired buffer of the same directory

[Stefan Monnier]

> It's also much more annoying for one's command flow to be interrupted by
> an unexpected question prompt, and that can cause real problems in cases
> where the user types commands quickly.

> In general, prompting the user for optional information is a bad idea,
> and this is especially true for "asynchronous" events.

I agree, but it's also true that we do exactly that for plain files,
which is a much more common case, so this same argument would call for
a similar change to plain files.


        Stefan