From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
Cc: 25665@debbugs.gnu.org, Chunyang Xu <mail@xuchunyang.me>
Subject: bug#25665: 26.0.50; [PATCH] Indicate prefix arg in minibuffer prompt for shell-command
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 11:19:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV-_bG2rFfffoe2oWD4mw-=uzwuME-=bDdCT5L1EDRYSYuA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1702101605070.2401@calancha-pc>
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 2:13 AM, Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> There are lots of commands in Emacs accepting a raw,
>>> numeric prefix etc. If we change M-! prompt, we might
>>> also want to tune the prompt for all of them. Do we want that?
>>
>>
>> IMO yes, if the difference can be summarized in the prompt concisely
>> enough.
>
> It might be a pain in the ass to follow such new policy:
> emacs -Q:
> C-x b foo RET
> aeiou
> I)
> C-x C-s
> II)
> C-u C-x C-s
> III)
> C-u C-u C-x C-s
> IV)
> C-u C-u C-u C-x C-s
>
> All have the same prompt:
> File to save in: ~/
I think this would fall under the case of too difficult to summarize
into a prompt concisely. Furthermore, C-x C-s does not usually prompt
at all so there is not much benefit anyway. But I would not object if
someone could come up with reasonably short and informative
modifications to the prompts.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-10 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-09 15:10 bug#25665: 26.0.50; [PATCH] Indicate prefix arg in minibuffer prompt for shell-command Chunyang Xu
2017-02-09 16:53 ` Tino Calancha
2017-02-09 18:08 ` Drew Adams
2017-02-09 20:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-10 4:23 ` Chunyang Xu
2017-02-09 22:54 ` npostavs
2017-02-10 3:05 ` Tino Calancha
2017-02-10 4:16 ` npostavs
2017-02-10 7:13 ` Tino Calancha
2017-02-10 16:19 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2019-06-24 23:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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[not found] ` <<8760kjz4nv.fsf@calancha-pc>
[not found] ` <<83r3373y3f.fsf@gnu.org>
2017-02-09 21:00 ` Drew Adams
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