From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: problem with the "You can run the command ..." message Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2022 03:01:23 +0200 Message-ID: <87wng5fyqk.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19861"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Io+lH0L19nmLrRYofl2CVC9ljvM= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 04 16:16:18 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nbNVC-0004xv-80 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2022 16:16:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47010 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nbNVA-0003l2-0G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2022 10:16:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:32782) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nbB6K-0003bP-Le for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Apr 2022 21:01:49 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:36426) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nbB6H-0008JW-Fg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Apr 2022 21:01:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nbB62-0005u5-Fv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2022 03:01:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 04 Apr 2022 10:14:41 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:136844 Archived-At: Try, with a region M-x count-region RET 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! Solution: (setq suggest-key-bindings nil extended-command-suggest-shorter nil) ? (BTW that tip isn't even useful, is it? Are you supposed to do M-x cou-r RET to save time? If I do something that often, I'd assign it a keystroke, not memorize some half-mnemonic/half-senseless cou-r ...) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal