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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 19368@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19368: 25.0.50; NSM prompt is not self-explanatory enough
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 09:42:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83powbvc0s.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871t8rx21a.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Fri,  05 Feb 2016 14:35:13 +1100)

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: 19368@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 14:35:13 +1100
> 
> > I suggest to change the prompt to something like this:
> >
> >   Continue connecting? ([N]o, [S]ession only, [A]lways)
> >
> > Alternatively, the first letter could be underlined (assuming we can
> > rely on every supported terminal to be able to display underlined
> > characters).
> 
> This has now been fixed, and it's using read-multiple-choice, which
> makes the character choices underline and bold on graphical systems, and
> "[l]ike this" on non-graphical ones.

Thanks.

> Some terminals do have the capability to underline and bold stuff, but
> have nil (display-graphic-p), right?  Is there a way to determine
> whether we're running on one of those terminals?  Because
> underlining/bolding is prettier than [t]his.

I don't think you should be bothered by that, because 'underline' is a
standard face, and every terminal expresses it as best as they can.
Just use it.





  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-05  7:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87a8j3llba.fsf@lifelogs.com>
2014-12-13 14:39 ` bug#19368: 25.0.50; NSM prompt is not self-explanatory enough Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-14  4:43   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-14 11:37     ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-02-05  3:43     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-14  8:12   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-14 16:02     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-14 22:48       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-21 11:50         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-04  7:24       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-04 16:47         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-05  3:53       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-05  3:35   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-05  7:42     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-02-05  7:46       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-05  9:34         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-06  3:09           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-06-02 14:31   ` Archived problem report bug#19368 (bug#19368: 25.0.50; NSM prompt is not self-explanatory enough) GNU bug Tracking System

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