From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-u prefix input (e.g., C-x f / set-fill-column) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:21:27 +0200 Message-ID: <87fy075dvs.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> References: <18200.51135.134834.801609@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192807312 12242 80.91.229.12 (19 Oct 2007 15:21:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:21:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Reitter , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ulrich Mueller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 19 17:21:51 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 1IitfW-0002lp-Fc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:21:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IitfO-00028u-Gr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:21:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IitfK-00026d-8G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:21:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IitfH-00025r-OI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:21:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IitfH-00025o-JN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:21:31 -0400 Original-Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IitfH-0000u3-5O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:21:31 -0400 Original-Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC08F33056; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:21:30 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:21:30 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: KS7+8UteDVicGf15dBtZq0RUO3bJO/B0Hrk6JCS0Ttz2 1192807290 Original-Received: from baldur.tsdh.de (dslb-084-063-027-031.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.63.27.31]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70968205B0; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:21:29 -0400 (EDT) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwEAIAAACI8LKTAAAACXBIWXMAAAsSAAALEgHS3X78 AAAATnRFWHRSYXcgcHJvZmlsZSB0eXBlIGV4aWYACmV4aWYKICAgICAgMjAKNDU3ODY5NjYwMDAw NGQ0ZDAwMmEwMDAwMDAwODAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMAqJuBZbAAAACXZwQWcAAAAwAAAAMADO7oxXAAAB d0lEQVRo3u2asRHCMAxF/xbswSIZhgmYgoKa0ehpoKagoUlOsqwvKUrjIrnL6V6+v2TJ+Nzep9cS tV6fl8f5vrbGxvZbEQvl/8k2shaAtvWyBi4WE7KhkeM7AKXAhIpoDkCJMAUAkmerdoC0aDLUSqiS 2psCsvvUbgHN1d2u6qC1t00BjW2oRlmsejWE2BN8fh2lKBTlPsXHhFh7zt9gA1873l5WAJBf0Hzb RhU0UZgOQCxA/ATMwYRa2ikJKOoQwKm2UVE7TB01AjQWGypurgKAsg2ID0CL5RCbCJB3ccjvQCZV kPxrjTxIC8XSq3QEJJe3n5qYzVl4zCckAY2FO6t1Ow2QdkA8t3SU/AbvpIExYVu2gMWJJNf3JG5l AqS9d2H3Ju1mtEOUYwJ/UGOpfeTOMsuPMJbItTi011y0yCQQx/QI5iw051RWDYgZyqxLMAGAMgSd YaKPWGHnhGIqFDtAce8ozirzY9v1pLlY9Qk96XZH3e9/ASFbB95TvQYIAAAAGnpUWHRqcGVnOmNv bG9yc3BhY2UAAHjaMwIAADMAM4k4IzUAAAAmelRYdGpwZWc6c2FtcGxpbmctZmFjdG9yAAB42jOq MNIxrDAEYQARgwLpPZcvTwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== Mail-Followup-To: Ulrich Mueller , David Reitter , emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <18200.51135.134834.801609@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (Ulrich Mueller's message of "Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:05:35 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:81227 Archived-At: Ulrich Mueller writes: Hi Ulrich, >> 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? 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. Bye, Tassilo