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

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   I think it is important to have a kind of warning and confirm when doing
   so.  I have personally often overwrited registers I was working with
   inadvertantly.

A warning, without confirmation (i.e. keeping the normal behaviour)
seems like a nice addition.

   Now when you set a new register you can use M-n and there it will set
   the register without the need to press RET.

The behaviour of this is sporadic.  M-n on the first invocation will
insert a, silently (how do you know which register it uses?).  On the
second, when trying to insert b, it will query the user.  Making this
hard to use in macros, or in any reliable fashion.

   I think the current behavior is sane, specially for new users - it is
   really surprizing that when hitting "a" for example there is no
   confirmation at all -, so I think the default for register-use-preview
   should be `t`.

That is the documented way registers work, why would it be remotley
suprising?

   If needed I can disable RET easily for register overwrite as well, this
   for the two remaining options of register-use-preview (nil and 'never)
   but I think it would be an error.

register-use-preview should disable "preview" -- it seems that this
variable is being used for other purposes, like making registers more
interactive.  Maybe those two behaviours should be split, have a
"register-warn-if-trashing-p" variable.

But it should be clear that some means of restoring the old behaviour,
exactly like it was, is needed with an easy toggle.