From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dired-view-command-alist Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 03:43:24 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20041005074324.GA19800@fencepost> References: <16727.29760.450838.453550@zarniwoop.ms25.local> <874qlclupk.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <16737.60249.17785.412605@zarniwoop.ms25.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096962266 24001 80.91.229.6 (5 Oct 2004 07:44:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 07:44:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 05 09:44:20 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CEjzg-0004zp-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 09:44:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CEk6I-0007NY-Td for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 03:51:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CEk5p-0007Ki-Il for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 03:50:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CEk5o-0007K6-NK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 03:50:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CEk5o-0007Jn-EZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 03:50:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CEjyt-00044y-1b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 03:43:31 -0400 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CEjym-0005IU-HG; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 03:43:24 -0400 Original-To: Reinhard Kotucha Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16737.60249.17785.412605@zarniwoop.ms25.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:27920 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27920 On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 02:31:21AM +0200, Reinhard Kotucha wrote: > When more then one file is marked, it displays something like > > ! on * [3 files]: {3 guesses} [ghostview] > > in the minibuffer. The string "[3 files]" can be omitted because at > the same time the names of the marked files are displayed in a > separate window. Thus "! on *:" is sufficient. I disagree -- I find the "[3 files]" info useful. Despite the filenames being displayed in a separate, the presence of that string in the prompt is more noticeable (maybe that sounds surprising, but when I give a command that I know is going to prompt me, I tend to focus on the minibuffer, so a warning there is much more likely to wake me up than a new window). The presence of the actual number of files seems to have a similar effect: because it's not a fixed string, it's somehow more noticeable than for instance a simple "[multiple files]" would be. So I'd say keep the "[ files]" stuff in the prompt. -Miles -- Freedom's just another word, for nothing left to lose --Janis Joplin