> > Deleting a file is much more severe than just deleting a few
> > lines. Perhaps there should be a warning if more than a certain
> > number (which could be a configurable threshold) of lines is being
> > deleted. An analogy from another world: If you try to format your
> > hard drive in DOS, it warns you first. It doesn't do that if it's
> > a floppy.
>
> Just because MS-DOS is stupid (and assumes the user is too), doesn't
> mean CVS should be.....
Emacs does it too: when the buffer has shrunk a lot, it won't autosave.
And at least one text editor warns you, if you try to save your file
after deleting all of the text in the buffer, that the file is empty and
will be deleted if you continue.
I, for one, am glad of it.
--Avi
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