From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Possible to alter the "M-x" string that is displayed when M-x is pressed to enter a command?
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 01:59:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a9m0h826.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.377.1373067609.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:
>> Chris Seberino writes:
>> >> (set-face-foreground 'minibuffer-prompt nil)
>> >
>> > nil gave an error for me
>>
>> For me, it works - I get the default face (cyan - `M-x
>> describe-face default') - but - why set it to nil, instead of
>> the color of your choice?
>
> Because then it uses the default face which I have already set
> elsewhere. Keeping it DRY - Don't Repeat Yourself. I already
> set the color I wanted in one location. I don't want to set
> that color again in an additional location. :-)
Haha, crazy stuff.
But seriously, that principle you mention is a very healthy one
and since I started to stick to it pedantically the amount of
debugging has dropped sharp. It may look silly with
const int days_in_a_week = 7;
but as soon as I have two 7's appearing in computation (meaning
that) I set it up. It is not only a protection against typos, but
also against sloppy search-and-replaces.
--
Emanuel Berg - programmer (hire me! CV below)
computer projects: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-05 23:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-05 16:47 Possible to alter the "M-x" string that is displayed when M-x is pressed to enter a command? Chris Seberino
2013-07-05 16:57 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-05 17:29 ` Bob Proulx
[not found] ` <mailman.358.1373045351.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-05 20:23 ` Chris Seberino
2013-07-05 21:07 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-05 23:40 ` Bob Proulx
[not found] ` <mailman.377.1373067609.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-05 23:59 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2013-07-05 17:04 ` Teemu Likonen
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