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Re: Reverting but keeping undo
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Dmitry Gutov |
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Re: Reverting but keeping undo |
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Wed, 29 May 2013 16:26:32 +0400 |
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On 29.05.2013 9:13, Drew Adams wrote:
I think it's a great change.
Yes, why? Any good reason?
The obvious one: prevention of data loss. With `auto-revert-mode', for
example.
(Sure, users can add back code themselves to empty the undo list and get back
the former behavior...)
Indeed, they can. The reverse has been impossible, until now.
There might well be someone out there who, "personally" or not (?), has
(another) good argument for keeping things the way they were - at least as an option.
Who knows? As Richard often says (especially for changes to basic, longstanding
behavior), why not poll the users?
They should be able to speak up now, or during the pretest. Nothing is
really set in stone, when it comes to code.
Don't you wonder that this came up now seemingly for the first time? Do you
think that no one has thought before about whether the undo list should be kept
or dropped when reverting? A bit presumptuous, no?
Obviously not. The opened bug is a couple of years old now.
Think about it a bit more. Open it for discussion on emacs-devel. Why act so
precipitously? Is that "personally" necessary?
We're having this discussion now, and instead of giving actual reasons
you're speaking of hypothetical users.
Talking about personal needs and requirements is good, because every
person is usually competent about those.
But the way you often assume the you know the userbase better than
everyone else is tiresome, to be honest.
- Reverting but keeping undo, Óscar Fuentes, 2013/05/15
- Re: Reverting but keeping undo, W. Greenhouse, 2013/05/16
- Re: Reverting but keeping undo, Stefan Monnier, 2013/05/28
- RE: Reverting but keeping undo, Drew Adams, 2013/05/28
- Re: Reverting but keeping undo, Dmitry Gutov, 2013/05/28
- RE: Reverting but keeping undo, Drew Adams, 2013/05/29
- Re: Reverting but keeping undo,
Dmitry Gutov <=
- RE: Reverting but keeping undo, Drew Adams, 2013/05/29
- Re: Reverting but keeping undo, Dmitry Gutov, 2013/05/29
- RE: Reverting but keeping undo, Drew Adams, 2013/05/29
- Re: Reverting but keeping undo, Dmitry Gutov, 2013/05/29
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- Re: Reverting but keeping undo, Dan Espen, 2013/05/29
- Re: Reverting but keeping undo, Stefan Monnier, 2013/05/29
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- Re: Reverting but keeping undo, Dan Espen, 2013/05/29
- RE: Reverting but keeping undo, Drew Adams, 2013/05/29
- Re: Reverting but keeping undo, Michael Heerdegen, 2013/05/30
Re: Reverting but keeping undo, Michael Heerdegen, 2013/05/30