From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Marek Ľach" <halcek@tutanota.com>
Cc: 54081@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54081: Hitting C-b should not only say Begging of buffer, but also the name of the buffer...
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 15:17:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmngjocx.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MwO3Z93--3-2@tutanota.com> ("Marek Ľach"'s message of "Sun, 20 Feb 2022 22:38:22 +0100 (CET)")
Marek Ľach <halcek@tutanota.com> writes:
> Currently, pressing the key combination Ctrl-b only states Beginning of buffer. But
> new users could benefit from also knowing quickly which buffer they are currently
> editing, so perhaps a phrase like: Beginning of buffer <buffername.extension>,
> such as: Beginning of buffer mygreatnovel.org could be more helpful to novices?
We have lots of commands that signal errors like this, and I feel like
adding the buffer name to all of them could just be adding more
cognitive load to the user. So I don't think we should do this, and I'm
closing this bug report.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-21 14:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-20 21:38 bug#54081: Hitting C-b should not only say Begging of buffer, but also the name of the buffer Marek Ľach via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-21 14:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-02-21 16:34 ` bug#54081: [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-02-22 5:13 ` Richard Stallman
2022-02-22 16:03 ` bug#54081: Marek Ľach via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87pmngjocx.fsf@gnus.org \
--to=larsi@gnus.org \
--cc=54081@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=halcek@tutanota.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).