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Re: visiting empty folders

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From: Tim McDaniel
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1991 13:20
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In article <1991Sep21Sa132501.Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM>
Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM writes:

   Maybe VM should by default balk at first, at requests to visit
   empty folders.

That shouldn't be in VM at all.  I grabbed a suggestion off the net
which causes Emacs to prompt me to confirm when it tries to visit a
non-existant file.  With that, I have to confirm twice with the "s"
command in vm to save to a non-existant file, which is a pain.

(Unfortunately, I can't remember or find what I did to enable this
behavior.  I use monkey-mode, but that shouldn't be important, because
the behavior shows up with "s" in vm.  When I try to visit a
non-existant file, it says:

   File:  /FOO [no completions, confirm]

Hitting ^M again is confirmation.  Can anyone recognize this message
and tell me how I did it?  8-)

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Tim McDaniel                 Applied Dynamics Int'l.; Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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