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 19:30:24 +0200 Message-ID: <18200.59824.735120.351717@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <18200.51135.134834.801609@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <87fy075dvs.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> 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 1192815053 7448 80.91.229.12 (19 Oct 2007 17:30:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:30:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Reitter , Ulrich Mueller , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tassilo Horn Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 19 19:30:54 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 1IivgT-0008KI-9w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:30:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IivgL-0002ut-PD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:30:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IivgI-0002sq-HY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:30:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IivgG-0002oR-28 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:30:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IivgF-0002oJ-Tb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:30:39 -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 1IivgA-000743-Ga; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:30:34 -0400 Original-Received: from a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.75]) by a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l9JHUPIo000879; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:30:25 +0200 Original-Received: from a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l9JHUOeg029880; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:30:24 +0200 Original-Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l9JHUOAH029875; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:30:24 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87fy075dvs.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> 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:81236 Archived-At: >>>>> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Tassilo Horn wrote: >> Wouldn't (current-column) be a reasonable default if no explicit >> argument was given? > I would object here. (current-column) is a good default for > `set-goal-column', but for `set-fill-column' I'd prefer if it queries > the user if no prefix arg was given. Hi Tassilo, next time I shall read the source code _before_ posting. ;-) Function set-fill-column contains the following comment: ;; Disallow missing argument; it's probably a typo for C-x C-f. So the point is that plain "C-x f" should produce an error because it is too similar to "C-x C-f". No default, and no further query. Ulrich