From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problem with the "You can run the command ..." message
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2022 01:55:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8vo4d5t.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 874k38h1dd.fsf@web.de
Michael Heerdegen wrote:
>> Try, with a region
>>
>> M-x count-region RET
>
> Do you mean `count-words-region' maybe? - because Emacs doesn't have
> that command.
You are right, I had that
(defalias 'count-region #'count-words-region)
Actually that alias isn't bad as it is shorter and
`count-words-region' doesn't just count words.
>> You see the answer in the echo area for only a short while,
>> then it gets replaced with
>>
>> You can run the command ‘count-region’ with M-x cou-r RET
>>
>> so you can't see the data queried for just one second ago.
>> Not good!
>
> Can be slightly annoying yes, the usefulness of the feature
> is arguable.
ikr?
And when in doubt intuitively and one can easily think of
_two_ reasons not to do something, the one shouldn't do it.
(Works vice versa as well.)
> But note that if you wait for another short while, the
> result is back - and it stays.
OK. Well, now it is disabled anyway. It seems this
(setq suggest-key-bindings nil
extended-command-suggest-shorter nil)
did it.
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2022-04-04 1:01 problem with the "You can run the command ..." message Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-04-04 23:31 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-04-04 23:55 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
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