From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#25665: 26.0.50; [PATCH] Indicate prefix arg in minibuffer prompt for shell-command Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 10:08:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <39fa3130-faca-49b8-a247-15f47f16504a@default> References: <8760kjz4nv.fsf@calancha-pc> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1486663756 27780 195.159.176.226 (9 Feb 2017 18:09:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 18:09:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 25665@debbugs.gnu.org To: Tino Calancha , Chunyang Xu Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 09 19:09:13 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cbt9b-0006tW-0H for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Thu, 9 Feb 2017 18:08:43 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0122.oracle.com (aserv0122.oracle.com [141.146.126.236]) by userv0021.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v19I8gN1014285 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 9 Feb 2017 18:08:43 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0019.oracle.com (abhmp0019.oracle.com [141.146.116.25]) by aserv0122.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v19I8fpP006059; Thu, 9 Feb 2017 18:08:41 GMT In-Reply-To: <8760kjz4nv.fsf@calancha-pc> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9.1 (1003210) [OL 12.0.6753.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:129153 Archived-At: > I am not sure about this. > The meaning of the prefix argument must be explained in the docstring. > That and the manual are the source of documentation, not the prompt. >=20 > Having a short prompt is also good because there are more space > in the line for the command; a short prompt is also better while tipying > a long command: sometimes you want to change something at the beginning: > < ; `beginning-of-buffer' > Now you need to `C-f' several times to jump out of the prompt. The more > verbose prompt, the more `C-f' you need. >=20 > Just my opinion. Let's see what other people think. +1 The minibuffer should simply echo that the prefix arg has been used, and just what its numeric value is. It should not try to explain what the possible values are and what they mean.