Re: [Bug: 21.5-b28] C-x C-s immediately after C-x C-f does the wrong thing, I think
Rodney Sparapani writes:
robert delius royar wrote:
>
> If I were to mistype a directory name within the path to the file, what
> would the action be? Now, I am asked if I wish to create the directory.
> If I answer "no," then I get a buffer with that filename. It is not
> modified, so I can delete the buffer without answering another question.
>
> I would want similar action in a revised C-x-C-f.
I agree with this. I actually do get burned by having modiff set in a
different context, of a mail reply-with-yank. If I choose a wide
reply instead of a narrow one, for example, I'd like to be able to do
"C-x k RET R" instead of "C-x k RET yes RET R". (I'm also
currently
futzing with window configuration, so the cursor is often not in the
right place in the summary buffer, and I want to redo on a different
message.)
I wonder if a better solution to this annoyance wouldn't be to
downgrade some of these verbose confirmation sequences to one letter
confirmations.
I have found that answering No is pretty useless and just hit C-g
and start all over again. I'm wondering if a No answer should have
the same effect as C-g. Does anyone know what was intended by allowing
No to create a buffer without a directory?
That's what "no" means in response to "Create the directory?"
Why
have "no" mean "abort" rather than "no"? Use C-g if you
want to start
from scratch. It's shorter, anyway.
This is definitely a candidate for y-or-n-p. Creating directories (or
not) is simply not that hard to recover from, and it's not like the
stupid Windows-induced yes-or-no-p for "Really revert the buffer?"
where M-x revert RET yes RET is burned into my fingertip PROM because
I *always* want to revert; being asked if you want to create is rare
and the answer not foreordained.
If you try to save the buffer, it just complains that the directory
does not exist anyways.
autosave continues to work by falling back to some standard place. I
occasionally use this as a safety net when I'm not sure I actually
have anything to say ... in which case I don't want the directory
created until I'm ready.
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