From: Vinicius Jose Latorre <viniciusjl@ig.com.br>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:39:48 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4683C834.6020506@ig.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0706280716p1aaac7d8qd317498cd4c520c6@mail.gmail.com>
Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> On 6/28/07, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>
>> The result is not irrelevant because you may do C-x C-q afterwards.
>
> Yes, and David (before embarking on a crusade to convince me of what
> do I find confusing, or why I shouldn't) already pointed out an
> example of how switching to overwrite in a read-only buffer can
> sometimes be useful. I don't know how common is, but it is certainly
> useful.
>
>> But maybe a little warning reminding the user that the buffer is not yet
>> writable could be added.
>
> Well, thanks! That was exactly my point: that it could warn "Buffer is
> read-only".
>
>> It doesn't seem tremendously useful, tho: she'll
>> figure it out soon enough.
>
> Agreed: it's not tremendously useful, not even very useful; just nice
> to some people, newbies perhaps. That's why I've been using the PgUp
> example: the warning about "Beginning of buffer" is not very useful,
> but it can be helpful to a newbie that suddenly doesn't understand why
> the buffer is not scrolling. David and others have reminded me a
> couple times or four that the read-only status is visible on the
> modeline. And it is: `--' turns into `%%', or `-*' to `-%'. Not the
> most conspicuous of clues, if you're new to Emacs, I think.
And if the background color of "Ovwrt" in the modeline is changed to
another color (for example, red as in custom-invalid face)?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-28 14:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-27 13:39 `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-27 14:08 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-27 14:25 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-27 14:55 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-27 15:52 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-27 16:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-06-27 18:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-27 20:59 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-27 21:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-27 22:04 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-27 22:11 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-27 22:24 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-27 22:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-27 23:13 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-27 23:22 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-28 5:23 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-28 7:51 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-28 8:07 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-28 8:15 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-28 8:25 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-28 8:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-28 9:04 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-28 9:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-28 9:16 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-28 9:22 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-28 9:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-06-28 10:21 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-28 11:14 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-06-28 11:33 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-28 10:55 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-28 14:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-28 14:12 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-28 14:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-28 14:30 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-28 14:39 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre [this message]
2007-06-28 14:51 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-28 15:21 ` Luc Teirlinck
2007-06-28 15:38 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-28 22:07 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-06-28 22:20 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-28 22:31 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-28 16:25 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-06-28 15:08 ` Davis Herring
2007-06-28 15:22 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-28 8:47 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-06-28 9:11 ` David Kastrup
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