From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>, 50935@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50935: minibuffer-electric-default-mode interface
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2021 19:46:56 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878rz74dxb.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <838rz74ggk.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 05 Oct 2021 18:52:11 +0300")
>> > The following patch makes the prompt more readable:
>> >
>> > Send signal to 3 processes [TERM]:
>>
>> Sounds good to me.
>
> It could be confusing. Previously, the prompt was
>
> Send signal [TERM]
The previous prompt was:
Send signal [3 processes] (default TERM):
or with customized minibuffer-default-prompt-format:
Send signal [3 processes] [TERM]:
This was too confusing.
> So it was much more clear that "TERM" refers to "signal" and vice
> versa. Now we have "3 processes" in the way, and someone could think
> "TERM" refers to the processes or something.
>
> How about this instead:
>
> Signal N processes with [SIGTERM]:
>
> Note that I deliberately added the "SIG" part so that it would be more
> clear this is the name of a signal.
Sorry, the phrase "Signal N processes" is too difficult to comprehend -
it's diffucult to see that "signal" is a verb here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-05 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-01 11:43 bug#50935: minibuffer-electric-default-mode interface Stefan Kangas
2021-10-02 19:15 ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-02 23:14 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-03 16:54 ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-04 2:17 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-04 17:22 ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-05 16:55 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-09-02 12:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-05 6:43 ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-05 14:11 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-05 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-05 16:46 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2021-10-05 16:42 ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-03 11:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
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