From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christian Seberino Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help 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: Sun, 01 Feb 2015 17:18:05 -0600 Message-ID: <54CEB42D.2020002@gmail.com> References: <90b92a22-d34c-4f7e-953e-74444f42e767@googlegroups.com> <54CB109E.1030802@gmail.com> <54CC1410.1050408@gmail.com> <54CC2360.20102@gmail.com> <54CC2420.9050306@gmail.com> <87y4ohlora.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422832712 22507 80.91.229.3 (1 Feb 2015 23:18:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 23:18:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 02 00:18:27 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YI3mc-00031u-U7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 00:18:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52241 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YI3mc-00057d-1Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2015 18:18:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55313) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YI3mO-00057K-BU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2015 18:18:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YI3mL-0002Ih-4F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2015 18:18:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ob0-x22c.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c01::22c]:40497) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YI3mK-0002IQ-Ul for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2015 18:18:09 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-ob0-f172.google.com with SMTP id nt9so10620356obb.3 for ; Sun, 01 Feb 2015 15:18:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=3ruNpqouYFmPryn+Ago5MnT850LVe6xSjaWe6ERQ83s=; b=VuGla6TwovdFXWXTwxoSCAnvN8R4v4IaWE/+XZswWmPvW+6/sDqJlIzinTqZ3Zdh5a MIIa6Q2SwlmF4rkaHffNLjiRRVRHcRZixKFWxABAcJ0ng0Hwfzf2dej6DD8PcvkV+sMj 6r/Zg/uKdq7u9MV/O1/7zuyyt7LAvTKSsj84feFYMGsZtJGxXiIh1UYsjbu+ydJyambs /OCqLn9wr6y1/eMTyponpQpd0FAY9fCfmiDvAfInblX8aPqzFDTv2/hasVlhqdwUBEYT tHMOndkU4kQYHCCYH7GGalIWodMJv99FJR1C5LO7J601120YVARa312ndj+qXwS8CN6H XLFg== X-Received: by 10.60.62.204 with SMTP id a12mr10465122oes.7.1422832687827; Sun, 01 Feb 2015 15:18:07 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.104] (r74-193-13-167.cnrocmta01.conrtx.tl.dh.suddenlink.net. [74.193.13.167]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id w70sm6360888oiw.29.2015.02.01.15.18.06 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 01 Feb 2015 15:18:06 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 In-Reply-To: <87y4ohlora.fsf@web.de> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4003:c01::22c X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:102443 Archived-At: OK. Thanks everyone for your help. I think I'll just get used to "Find file" for now. :) cs On 02/01/2015 07:55 AM, Michael Heerdegen wrote: > Christian Seberino writes: > >> (define-abbrev-table >> 'tramp-abbrev-table >> '(("d" "/ssh:cs@philfour.com:/home/cs/Ws") >> ("dr" "/ssh:cs@philfour.com|su:philfour.com:/home") >> ("w" "/ssh:cs@services.philfour.com:/home/webwork_custom") >> ("wr" "/ssh:cs@services.philfour.com|su:services.philfour.com:/home"))) >> >> (add-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook (lambda () >> (abbrev-mode t) >> (setq local-abbrev-table >> tramp-abbrev-table))) >> >> (defadvice minibuffer-complete >> (before my-minibuffer-complete activate) >> (expand-abbrev)) > I tried this and invoked `find-file-read-args'. I don't see any tab > character inserted or being left, I get the expected behavior, with all > Emacs versions I tried. Of course I can't connect to your hosts. > > But really, all the trouble you may provoke with your hack is IMHO much > worse than getting used to the "Find file" wording. > > > Michael.