Re: master cd0a795: Output number of characters added to file (Bug#354)

[Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu>]

On 07/04/17 at 08:06am, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 11:30 PM, Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >>     Output number of characters added to file (Bug#354)
> >
> > This behavior is unnecessarily verbose, at least when just interactively
> > saving buffers.  Haven't tested this otherwise.  If I cared about the
> > number of characters in the buffer I'd look in the mode line or just do
> > C-x =.
> 
> Would it help if we rearranged the message so that the number of
> characters go at the end? Something like:
> 
> Wrote /foo/bar/blah (1314 characters)

I still don't understand the purpose of this change, as I've never been
troubled by not knowing the number of characters written, and the original
report didn't outline a recipe.  So, I'm not sure I can really comment
other than suggesting a revert.