From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>, 5423@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5423: Multiline y-or-n prompt in files.el
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 11:03:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eb8315d3-c512-3fe7-756d-8aa9587eb965@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pn49n11z.fsf@gmx.net>
> I'm not sure just what you meant with "beginning of the prompt", but
> what I see is only the last line of the entire prompt message:
> "The file test is already visited literally,
> meaning no coding system handling, format conversion, or local variables.
> You have edited the buffer. Now you have asked to visit the file normally,
> but Emacs can visit a file in only one way at a time.
>
> Do you want to save the file, and visit it normally instead? "
Why can't that prompt just say
"File's buffer modified, save it and visit file normally afterwards?"
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-19 10:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-19 13:51 bug#5423: Multiline y-or-n prompt in files.el Stefan Monnier
2010-01-19 14:12 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-01-19 14:56 ` Helmut Eller
2010-01-19 15:17 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-01-19 15:35 ` Drew Adams
2010-01-20 1:59 ` Juri Linkov
2010-01-20 2:52 ` Lennart Borgman
2020-11-19 2:51 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-11-19 5:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-19 9:33 ` Stephen Berman
2020-11-19 10:03 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2020-11-19 14:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-20 8:30 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-21 19:50 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-21 21:23 ` Stefan Monnier
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