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From: Chris Seberino <cseberino@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Easy/Possible to globally change prompt strings of messages? e.g. changing find-file's prompt string from "Find file:" to "open file:" ?
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 15:58:40 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2f498204-b95b-4870-8f6b-83e43b8584c1@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.18960.1422607363.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>

Michael

I tried using the function below....the advice-add part gave an error..

 function definition is void: advice-add
(Emacs ver 24.3)

When I removed the advice-add part it seems to work!!  i.e. this works...

(defun my-find-file-around-ad (origfun &rest args)
  (interactive
   (find-file-read-args "Open file: "
                        (confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer)))
  (apply origfun args))

The only problem is when I use TAB completion to replace abbreviations,
it appends the TAB to the end instead of *replacing it*....find-file
does it right and I was hoping using find-file-read-args would work right
too but it didn't.  Do you know why TAB remains unlike with find-file?

On Friday, January 30, 2015 at 2:42:46 AM UTC-6, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> Christian Seberino <cseberino@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Perhaps it would be feasible/easier to somehow add all those wonderful
> > features (TAB completion and abbreviations)
> > to my own wrapper functions? How hard is *that* by comparision?
> 
> Actually it is not hard, at least for this specific case and in Emacs >=
> 24 (didn't check older Emacsen):
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (defun my-find-file-around-ad (origfun &rest args)
>   (interactive
>    (find-file-read-args "Open file: "
>                         (confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer)))
>   (apply origfun args))
> 
> (advice-add 'find-file :around #'my-find-file-around-ad)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> But I think in the long term it's better to get used to the Emacs
> nomenclature.
> 
> 
> Michael.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-30 23:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-30  4:08 Easy/Possible to globally change prompt strings of messages? e.g. changing find-file's prompt string from "Find file:" to "open file:" ? Chris Seberino
2015-01-30  4:19 ` Drew Adams
2015-01-30  5:03   ` Christian Seberino
2015-01-30  8:42     ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-01-30 16:19       ` [OT] " Harry Putnam
2015-01-30 16:33         ` Drew Adams
2015-02-05 20:57           ` Harry Putnam
2015-02-05 21:41             ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-02-06 14:35               ` Harry Putnam
2015-01-30 14:41     ` Drew Adams
2015-01-30 23:30       ` Christian Seberino
2015-01-31  0:31         ` Drew Adams
2015-01-31  0:35           ` Christian Seberino
2015-01-31  0:38             ` Christian Seberino
2015-02-01 13:55               ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-02-01 23:18                 ` Christian Seberino
2015-02-02 21:43                   ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-02-02 22:11                     ` Drew Adams
     [not found]                     ` <mailman.19192.1422915104.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-02-03  3:31                       ` Rusi
     [not found]     ` <mailman.18960.1422607363.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-01-30 23:58       ` Chris Seberino [this message]
2015-02-01 13:51         ` Michael Heerdegen

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