From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm)
Cc: 19152@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19152: 25.0.50; "You can run the command `debug-on-entry' with M-x deb-o RET"
Date: 23 Nov 2014 18:54:41 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141123185441.32704.qmail@mail.muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.14373.1416741437.1147.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
In article <mailman.14373.1416741437.1147.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> you wrote:
> Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> Please remove such silly messages, which do not tell users about a *key
>> sequence* bound to the command they entered.
+1
> Actually I find these messages very instructive for people like me,
> which had no idea about this (new with Emacs-25?) abbreviation ability!
Which is of questionable value and questionable safety. Read the anecdote
in entry "DWIM" of the New Hacker's Dictionary (about somebody having his
command "delete *$" helpfully interpreted as "delete *") to see why.
This feature is even present in Emacs 24.3. I'm now going to find out how
to turn it off, once and for all.
> Dieter
> --
> Best wishes
> H. Dieter Wilhelm
> Darmstadt, Germany
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-23 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-23 3:14 bug#19152: 25.0.50; "You can run the command `debug-on-entry' with M-x deb-o RET" Drew Adams
2014-11-23 11:15 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2014-11-23 15:36 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-23 15:54 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2014-11-23 15:41 ` Jay Belanger
2014-11-23 16:14 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2014-11-23 16:16 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.14373.1416741437.1147.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-23 18:54 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2014-11-23 18:59 ` Ivan Shmakov
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