From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Mueller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-u prefix input (e.g., C-x f / set-fill-column) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:05:35 +0200 Message-ID: <18200.51135.134834.801609@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192806385 8828 80.91.229.12 (19 Oct 2007 15:06:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:06:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Reitter Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 19 17:06:26 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IitQI-0007Yf-0Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:06:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IitQA-0005An-8q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:05:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IitQ6-000597-4q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:05:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IitQ0-00055Y-KR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:05:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IitQ0-00055U-En for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:05:44 -0400 Original-Received: from a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de ([134.93.134.1]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IitPz-0004fm-Up for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:05:44 -0400 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l9JF5Zsq028801; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:05:35 +0200 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.1/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l9JF5ZgZ006934; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:05:35 +0200 Original-Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l9JF5Zcn006928; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:05:35 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.0.2-487 under Emacs 22.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:81225 Archived-At: >>>>> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, David Reitter wrote: > 2a. When users forget to give an argument with C-u, the error message > should be > "set-fill-column requires an explicit argument with prefix C-u > " > or something like that. > Or, better: > 2b. Instead of displaying the above error message, the user should be > queried interactively for the argument, just like most interactive > functions do it. In other words, use (interactive "N") in `set-fill- > column' instead of "p". Wouldn't (current-column) be a reasonable default if no explicit argument was given? Ulrich