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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
Cc: 25665@debbugs.gnu.org, mail@xuchunyang.me
Subject: bug#25665: 26.0.50; [PATCH] Indicate prefix arg in minibuffer prompt for shell-command
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 22:31:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r3373y3f.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8760kjz4nv.fsf@calancha-pc> (message from Tino Calancha on Fri,  10 Feb 2017 01:53:56 +0900)

> From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 01:53:56 +0900
> Cc: 25665@debbugs.gnu.org, tino.calancha@gmail.com
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Just my opinion.  Let's see what other people think.

I think it goes against Emacs conventions.  We have quite a few
commands that insert output into the current buffer when invoked with
an argument.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-02-09 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-09 15:10 bug#25665: 26.0.50; [PATCH] Indicate prefix arg in minibuffer prompt for shell-command Chunyang Xu
2017-02-09 16:53 ` Tino Calancha
2017-02-09 18:08   ` Drew Adams
2017-02-09 20:31   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-02-10  4:23     ` Chunyang Xu
2017-02-09 22:54   ` npostavs
2017-02-10  3:05     ` Tino Calancha
2017-02-10  4:16       ` npostavs
2017-02-10  7:13         ` Tino Calancha
2017-02-10 16:19           ` Noam Postavsky
2019-06-24 23:04   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
     [not found] <<m2wpczwgay.fsf@xuchunyang.me>
     [not found] ` <<8760kjz4nv.fsf@calancha-pc>
     [not found]   ` <<83r3373y3f.fsf@gnu.org>
2017-02-09 21:00     ` Drew Adams

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