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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>
Cc: 54173@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54173: 28.0.91; Training wheels for query-replace
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 12:55:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o82so9yn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wnhgtxzv.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Augusto Stoffel on Sun,  27 Feb 2022 11:17:08 +0100)

> From: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>
> Cc: 54173@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 11:17:08 +0100
> 
> >> I think ‘y’ and ‘n’ are intuitive enough that they don't need a
> >> reminder.  But mentioning the more uncommon ones (‘.’ and so on) without
> >> talking about ‘y’ and ‘n’ is weird.
> >
> > How about the below?
> >
> >   (‘y’/‘n’, ‘.’ replace & exit, ‘^’ back up, ‘?’ help)
> 
> I find this better than the status quo.  I've attached the patch.

Thanks.  Let's wait a bit to let others chime in and express their
opinions.

> >> One idea would be to choose between the short and long messages based on
> >> the size of the miniwindow as well as the length regexp and replacement
> >> text.
> >
> > That could also be a possibility.
> 
> Between this and your suggestion, I'm undecided what's better.  Perhaps
> this is more complicated than necessary.

Let's see what others think.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-27 10:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-26 22:15 bug#54173: 28.0.91; Training wheels for query-replace Augusto Stoffel
2022-02-27  6:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-27  7:55   ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-02-27  8:23     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-27  8:51       ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-02-27  9:24         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-27 10:17           ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-02-27 10:55             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-02-27 16:11               ` bug#54173: [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-02-27 13:10             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-27 13:46               ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-03-03 16:41                 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-03-10 19:24                   ` Juri Linkov
2022-03-10 19:28                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-03-10 19:44                       ` Juri Linkov
2022-03-12 16:58                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-03-10 19:20     ` Juri Linkov

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