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bug#68663: Unsaved buffers dialog is unhelpful


From: Nikolay Kudryavtsev
Subject: bug#68663: Unsaved buffers dialog is unhelpful
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2024 01:38:56 +0300
User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird

That's very unfortunate.

I'll summarize the arguments for changing this dialog for the future, because I have a hunch that this would eventually be changed:

From the point of view of a power user this is bad because power users generally have Emacs running for day-weeks-months at a time and they generally need to know whether the change they've made to some buffer days ago is meaningful or a typo. The new behavior requires them to set use-dialog-box nil or remember about the C-x C-c behavior being different. All for a basic thing that ideally should not take any mental space.

From the point of view of a new user this is bad because now the user is stuck searching for those modified buffers by hand since Emacs have not given him any guidance. Quitting and saving is such a basic operation(cue two pages of vim jokes) that at this point we should not only not expect the user to know about M-x save-some-buffers, but even what the buffer modified mode line flag looks like.






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