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authorCraig Jennings <c@cjennings.net>2026-07-31 12:39:27 -0500
committerCraig Jennings <c@cjennings.net>2026-07-31 12:39:27 -0500
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fix(prompts): make destructive confirms one keystrokeHEADmain
I had to kill an Emacs session today over a prompt I could not answer. A second agent session held the selected window while "Overwrite hiroshi.m3u? (yes or no)" waited in another frame, so my keystrokes went to a terminal and the minibuffer stayed empty. Losing unsaved buffers is a far worse outcome than a mis-keyed confirm. So cj/confirm-strong becomes cj/confirm-destructive, and instead of binding use-short-answers to nil for a typed "yes" it reads a single y or n. Two things I kept: - No default. Only y and n answer, so a stray RET or space re-prompts rather than confirming a shutdown. - Pending input is discarded before the read. Without that the change would have been a bad trade: read-char-choice reads the input queue, so a key typed before the prompt painted would confirm instantly, where the old typed-"yes" absorbed it harmlessly. Worth being honest about what this does not fix. One keystroke does not make a prompt reachable when focus is elsewhere, and C-g is still the escape. It lowers the cost of the situation rather than preventing it. Six call sites: shutdown and reboot, shred, playlist overwrite and delete, and the two file overwrites.
Diffstat (limited to 'modules/custom-buffer-file.el')
-rw-r--r--modules/custom-buffer-file.el6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/modules/custom-buffer-file.el b/modules/custom-buffer-file.el
index 0ca06cf9..fdcc4d2f 100644
--- a/modules/custom-buffer-file.el
+++ b/modules/custom-buffer-file.el
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
(declare-function mm-insert-part "mm-decode")
(declare-function mm-destroy-parts "mm-decode")
(require 'external-open) ;; for cj/xdg-open, cj/open-this-file-with
-(require 'system-lib) ;; cj/confirm-strong (overwrite confirms), used below
+(require 'system-lib) ;; cj/confirm-destructive (overwrite confirms), used below
;; cj/kill-buffer-and-window and cj/kill-other-window-buffer defined in undead-buffers.el
(declare-function cj/kill-buffer-and-window "undead-buffers")
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ When called interactively, prompts for confirmation if target file exists."
(condition-case _
(cj/--move-buffer-and-file dir nil)
(file-already-exists
- (if (cj/confirm-strong (format "File %s exists; overwrite? " target))
+ (if (cj/confirm-destructive (format "File %s exists; overwrite? " target))
(cj/--move-buffer-and-file dir t)
(message "File not moved"))))))
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ When called interactively, prompts for confirmation if target file exists."
(condition-case err
(cj/--rename-buffer-and-file new-name nil)
(file-already-exists
- (if (cj/confirm-strong (format "File %s exists; overwrite? " new-name))
+ (if (cj/confirm-destructive (format "File %s exists; overwrite? " new-name))
(cj/--rename-buffer-and-file new-name t)
(message "File not renamed")))
(error