From: Christian Seberino <cseberino@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.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: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 23:03:26 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54CB109E.1030802@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cb885bb0-0773-4d75-92a8-47d1e06dd979@default>
Drew
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?
cs
On 01/29/2015 10:19 PM, Drew Adams wrote:
>> Is it easy/possible to change the prompt strings of various Emacs commands?
>>
>> For example, what Emacs calls find-file I think of as "opening a file"
>> and hence would like to change the prompt from "Find file:" to "open file:".
>>
>> Are global changes like that possible/easy? Perhaps it would require
>> an Lisp style macro or something?
> Generally speaking, no. Typically, a general function that reads
> input is called by a command, and it is passed a literal string as
> the prompt to use.
>
> Anything is possible, of course. You can replace, for example, the
> standard definition of `find-file-read-args' (which reads the file
> name for `find-file' and similar commands), so that it uses your
> preferred prompt.
>
> But there is a reason that such functions take a PROMPT argument:
> so that they can be called by different commands or in different
> contexts, using different prompts. For `find-file-read-args',
> for example:
>
> files.el:1433: (find-file-read-args "Find file: "
> files.el:1453: (find-file-read-args "Find file in other window: "
> files.el:1476: (find-file-read-args "Find file in other frame: "
> files.el:1490: (interactive (nbutlast (find-file-read-args "Find existing file: " t)))
> files.el:1513: (find-file-read-args "Find file read-only: "
> files.el:1522: (find-file-read-args "Find file read-only other window: "
> files.el:1531: (find-file-read-args "Find file read-only other frame: "
> menu-bar.el:206: (filename (car (find-file-read-args "Find file: " mustmatch))))
> files.el:1433: (find-file-read-args "Find file: "
> files.el:1453: (find-file-read-args "Find file in other window: "
> files.el:1476: (find-file-read-args "Find file in other frame: "
> files.el:1490: (interactive (nbutlast (find-file-read-args "Find existing file: " t)))
> files.el:1513: (find-file-read-args "Find file read-only: "
> files.el:1522: (find-file-read-args "Find file read-only other window: "
> files.el:1531: (find-file-read-args "Find file read-only other frame: "
> menu-bar.el:206: (filename (car (find-file-read-args "Find file: " mustmatch))))
>
> Alternatively, you could replace not the utility functions that read
> input but the commands that call the utility functions. In that case,
> you would have even more to change. ;-)
>
> In sum, don't bother to try. Just learn to live with "Find file" etc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-30 5:03 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 [this message]
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
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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