Re: C-x C-v considered harmful

[Miles Bader]

Bob Rogers <address@hidden> writes:
>    1.  Bind find-alternate-file to something different.  
>    2.  Add a "[Confirm]" step if nonexistent, as for selecting files or
> buffers with confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer set to t.
>    3.  Do not bind find-alternate-file to anything at all.

How  about:

  4.  Make find-alternate-file use a yes-or-no-p confirmation prompt if
       the buffer has no associated file.  My guess is that the vast
       majority of uses of find-alternate-file are replacing one file
       buffer with another, and that intentionally replacing "special"
       buffers is very rare.

       If there are specific modes or buffers for which "replacement"
       _is_ commonly used, then there could be a variable to tell
       find-alternate-file not to confirm that buffer (and a user could
       set the global default value of that variable to turn off all
       confirmation)

-Miles

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