From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jidanni@jidanni.org Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#354: "Added (how many lines, bytes?!) to file.txt" Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:37:52 +0800 Message-ID: <87r6bemkjj.fsf@jidanni.org> Reply-To: jidanni@jidanni.org, 354@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212526089 29493 80.91.229.12 (3 Jun 2008 20:48:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 20:48:09 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 03 22:48:51 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K3dQS-0000dh-FN for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:48:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50664 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K3dPf-0002AC-OJ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:47:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K3dPV-00025t-Ny for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:47:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K3dPU-00022j-E6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:47:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51400 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K3dPS-000226-U5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:47:10 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:35533) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K3dPS-000254-KL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:47:10 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m53Kl4Nq030700; Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:47:05 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id m53KU7dp026229; Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:30:07 -0700 X-Loop: don@donarmstrong.com Resent-From: jidanni@jidanni.org Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:30:07 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: don@donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: report 354 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B.121252455924802 (code B ref -1); Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:30:07 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 3 Jun 2008 20:22:39 +0000 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [199.232.76.165]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m53KMZe4024791 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:22:36 -0700 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K3d1f-0002ih-4b for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:22:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K3d1d-0002gC-Kb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:22:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=32966 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K3d1d-0002fg-EW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:22:33 -0400 Original-Received: from lax-green-bigip-5.dreamhost.com ([208.113.200.5]:49842 helo=blingymail-a2.g.dreamhost.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K3d1c-0005r6-4o for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:22:33 -0400 Original-Received: from jidanni1.jidanni.org (122-127-33-182.dynamic.hinet.net [122.127.33.182]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by blingymail-a2.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E7204134B for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:22:30 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:47:12 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:18238 Archived-At: Gentlemen, (I sound like Prince's "Partyman" song) I noticed all append-to-file says is "Added to /var/neurdsbeurg.txt". The problem is often the user thinks "good, thanks", when days later he discovers few or no lines got added, that's right, even 0 bytes will produce the same message. You see often we are not fully aware of the extent of our regions, colored or not, especially when extending off the screen. Therefore I propose you change that message to say instead how many line or bytes or characters or both or all three were copied over. All this of course also applies to write-region.