Subject: bug#9591: 24.0.50; buffer name completion

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:34:28 -0400

>   Another fix might be for C-x k to use confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer
    >   so that after you type TAB, Emacs prompts with [Confirm] when you try to
    >   exit the minibuffer immediately.
    >
    > How would that change it?  The buffer ` *message-viewer RMAIL*' did
    > exist.

    It would probably have stopped you from accidentally entering the
    internal buffer by typing RET quickly after TAB.

Why would it have done that?  I don't follow.
I don't see how it would have altered anything in this scenario.

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