From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Christian Seberino <cseberino@gmail.com>, 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 06:41:10 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <edebb733-3eba-442a-bca7-e781212dc42d@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54CB109E.1030802@gmail.com>
> Thanks! As a consolation prize...what if I only wanted to change the
> prompt string when I called wrapper functions *myself*
> with a shortcut key?
>
> e.g. I could write my own function called my-find-file that had whatever
> prompt string I wanted, and, then have
> it call find-file internally. I actually went down that route. The
> problem I had was that I rely on the
> TAB completion and abbreviation features of find-file for Tramp and
> other stuff with long path names.
>
> 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?
My opinion? Don't bother.
But yes, you certainly can call `find-file-read-args' (or
`read-file-name') yourself, passing it any prompt you like.
You will get all of the usual TAB completion etc. - no problem.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-30 14:41 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 [this message]
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
2015-02-01 13:51 ` Michael Heerdegen
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