Re: [RFC PATCH v1 0/1] Avoid accidentally overwriting macro recording

Hi Benno—


On Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 11:58 AM Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Op 11-02-2026 om 18:14 schreef Charles Mirabile:
> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 11:07 AM Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Intuitions differ from person to person.  See if you
> >> can get votes for the change in behavior.
> >
> > Someone else already replied to my patch in favor of it.
>
> Huh?  That must have been a private email then, because I have not
> seen any such mail -- and in the archives it's just you and me in
> this thread:
>
>    https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2026-02/msg00007.html

Yeah, I realize now that he only replied to me. I will ask him if he
wants to chime in publicly on the list.

>
> > Obviously
> > that is only a sample size of two, but it felt validating, so I was
> > kind of surprised when you shot it down.
>
> I didn't shoot it down -- I pushed back.  The defaults cannot please
> everyone, therefore many people will want to do some customization.
> So that's what I suggested.
>
> But if you had given me some more time, I would most likely already
> have changed my mind -- sleeping a night over it does wonders.
>

Yeah, I think we might be in different time zones, so I felt an
impetus to jump in when I knew maybe we were both around, but
obviously the point of email is that it is asynchronous and it can
wait. I shouldn't have rushed to reply, and I am sorry that my haste
caused me to be pushy with lazy arguments and left a bad taste in your
mouth.

>
> > I on the other hand accidentally nuke a useful macro and have to
> > re-record at least once a month, not the end of the world, but way
> > more common for me personally.
>
> I've accidentally hit M-: when I meant M-;.  But I did that just once,
> and never again.  When I make a costly mistake, I learn.  :)  Nowadays,
> when I record or replay a macro, I go real slow.

Yeah, as I said, it only happens so often, mainly when I already made
a mistake recording the macro the first time, I go to re-record and
all of my focus is on getting it right the second time but I have also
had to hit the record button four times and so I am especially primed
to screw it up.

>
>
> Benno
>

Best—Charlie