GNU bug report logs - #49774
27.1; if diff commands finds no differences then do not pop up a window

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: ndame <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 17:01:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 27.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #50 received at 49774 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: laszlomail <at> protonmail.com, 49774 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov <at> yandex.ru
Subject: Re: bug#49774: 27.1;
 if diff commands finds no differences then do not pop up a window
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2021 21:07:11 -0400
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  > A general thing for popping up asynchronous buffers that users can
  > control?  Yeah, that could be nice.  We could have a user option that
  > says whether to pop up immediately, later but only on success, always,
  > run the command synchronously...

New options like this provide an unending opportunity for increased
featurism, and can make some operations more convenient for some users.
But they won't extend the actual jobs that Emacs can handle.

Those changes are the substantial improvements, so I ask people to
focus their efforts on changes of that kind.


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