[darcs-users] How to avoid extra "last regrets" question?

[Eric Kow]

I seem to remember this was under discussion, how to make the last
regrets prompt less annoying.  I'd suggest we avoid going down the
route of making this configurable just to please people who both find
it annoying and are willing to configure their darcs, and instead
focus on the problem at hand.

It's one of these seeming rock-and-hard-places problems: how else do
we offer the ability to revisit the very last choice (not to mention
the IMHO less important review function)?

I still hold that [dq] is better for last regrets than accepting [yn],
precisely for the reason that it's easy to accidentally say yn when
you don't mean it.  (And that UIs should be designed to forgive users
like me who tend to tell the computer things they don't really mean
like “yeah yeah, ok I really do want to delete that file… oh wait, no!
what was I saying?! Argh!”)


On 1 July 2013 13:56, Benjamin Franksen
<benjamin.franksen at helmholtz-berlin.de> wrote:
> This regularly happens to me lately:
>
> franksen at tiber: ...support/seq/branch-2-2 > darcs push
> Mon Jul  1 14:37:59 CEST 2013  benjamin.franksen at helmholtz-berlin.de
>   * top level Makefile: pdf and docs no longer variables, restructured extra
> targets
> Shall I push this patch? (1/1)  [ynW...], or ? for more options: n
> Do you want to push these patches? [Yglqk...], or ? for more options: q
> push cancelled.
>
> I find the extra question extremely annoying, especially (but not only) when
> I selected no patches as in the above example. The above always makes me
> stop, thinking, "What? Did I accidentally press 'y' when I meant to press
> 'n'? I'm sure I didn't!".
>
> I loved how Darcs used to tell me "You don't want to push any patches, and
> that's fine with me!" which always made me smile, whereas the new one makes
> me moan.
>
> Is there a switch that gets me back to old behaviour, preferably one that I
> can put in my ~/.darcs/defaults?
>
> Cheers
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