GNU bug report logs - #10726
24.0.93; `find-file-noselect': why should it interrogate the user?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 19:27:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Merged with 8180, 13159

Found in versions 24.0.50, 24.0.93, 24.3.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #13 received at 10726 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 10726 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#10726: 24.0.93;
	`find-file-noselect': why should it interrogate the user?
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 07:39:46 -0800

> > I do see that `find-file-noselect' has been posing 
> > questions to the user since Day One.  But I do not
> see why that is appropriate.  
> 
> FWIW, I largely agree on the principle.  But I think that requires
> non-trivial changes, including maybe adding a new "really
> non-interactive" version of find-file-noselect.

Yes.  That's the point of the bug report.  It would mean factoring out the truly
non-interactive part as the real `find-file-noselect' and using the
interrogation part as a wrapper that is called by commands when used
interactively.
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