Re: [PATCH] When deleting in bookmark menu, prompt for confirmation.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 3 May 2021 10:43:29 -0500
> Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > Questions that pop where previously Emacs did something silently can
> > be annoying, which is why I'd prefer to turn this off by default.  If
> > someone wants the new behavior, they can enable it.
> 
> That's fair enough.  To me, the danger of accidentally deleting a
> bookmarks still seems more important.  On the one hand, we have lived
> with that for a long time, OTOH that is no reason not to try to do
> better.

My point is that it is safer to start with the existing behavior, and
"do better" as an opt-in feature.  Later, if enough people like this
new behavior, we can make it the default.

Changing the default behavior is 100% justified only when the old
behavior is a clear bug, IMO.