Re: Please, Restore Previous Behavior for jump-to-register

[João Távora]

On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 8:28 AM Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>    The old behavior is to not ask for confirmation when overwriting a
>    register, and some people - including me - would like to have a simple
>    way to make `C-x r SPC' (`point-to-register') behave in the old way...
>    Is there a way to do that by just setting variables?
>    If not, can you implement a way to do that?
>
> More importantly, the documentation for how registers behave is out of
> sync with this new behaviour.  The old behaviour should really be made
> default until.

I'm hoping the old behavior stays the default and the new behaviour
is what users can opt in with a variable.

If that is what normally happens for much less disruptive changes,
why isn't it happening for this deep impacting one?

João