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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Better process-kill-query prompt
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:26:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31uvnzrmj.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ipozyebf.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:59:16 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> How about mentioning the name of the process as well?

In my experience, the buffer name is usually a lot more helpful, since
they tend to have sensible names, while processes usually have terse,
not very informative names.

And people are used to dealing with buffers, and processes are a bit
more esoteric, I think.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-11  3:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-11  0:46 Better process-kill-query prompt Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-11  1:08 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-09-11  2:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-11  3:26   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2011-09-11  4:31     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-11  4:41       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-11  3:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-11  3:31   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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