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From: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Clough <kb1vqh@gmail.com>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: master cd0a795: Output number of characters added to file (Bug#354)
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2017 16:03:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170409200323.o5z32kiolvmd2gnl@holos.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-_H8W4nayZgp_XQqG=oWE0eusXqwQnyBB1x1-RzN5QaiA@mail.gmail.com>

On 07/04/17 at 08:06am, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 11:30 PM, Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >>     Output number of characters added to file (Bug#354)
> >
> > This behavior is unnecessarily verbose, at least when just interactively
> > saving buffers.  Haven't tested this otherwise.  If I cared about the
> > number of characters in the buffer I'd look in the mode line or just do
> > C-x =.
> 
> Would it help if we rearranged the message so that the number of
> characters go at the end? Something like:
> 
> Wrote /foo/bar/blah (1314 characters)

Also, why were quotes added?  More wasted space.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-04-09 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20170407022529.14820.30445@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20170407022531.17D812084C@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2017-04-07  3:30   ` master cd0a795: Output number of characters added to file (Bug#354) Mark Oteiza
2017-04-07  7:14     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-07 22:50       ` Paul Eggert
2017-04-07 23:02         ` Kaushal Modi
2017-04-08  0:13           ` Noam Postavsky
2017-04-08  0:16       ` Mark Oteiza
2017-04-07 12:06     ` Noam Postavsky
2017-04-08  0:17       ` Mark Oteiza
2017-04-08  7:34         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-08 14:08           ` Mark Oteiza
2017-04-09 20:03       ` Mark Oteiza [this message]
2017-04-07 13:42   ` Michael Albinus
2017-04-07 22:27     ` Noam Postavsky
2017-04-07 16:48   ` Glenn Morris
2017-04-07 21:41     ` Glenn Morris

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