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.
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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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