From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Cc: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-u prefix input (e.g., C-x f / set-fill-column)
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:21:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fy075dvs.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18200.51135.134834.801609@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (Ulrich Mueller's message of "Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:05:35 +0200")
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> writes:
Hi Ulrich,
>> 2a. When users forget to give an argument with C-u, the error message
>> should be
>
>> "set-fill-column requires an explicit argument with prefix C-u
>> <ARGUMENT>"
>
>> or something like that.
>> Or, better:
>
>> 2b. Instead of displaying the above error message, the user should be
>> queried interactively for the argument, just like most interactive
>> functions do it. In other words, use (interactive "N") in `set-fill-
>> column' instead of "p".
>
> Wouldn't (current-column) be a reasonable default if no explicit
> argument was given?
I would object here. (current-column) is a good default for
`set-goal-column', but for `set-fill-column' I'd prefer if it queries
the user if no prefix arg was given.
Bye,
Tassilo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-19 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-19 14:45 C-u prefix input (e.g., C-x f / set-fill-column) David Reitter
2007-10-19 15:05 ` Ulrich Mueller
2007-10-19 15:21 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2007-10-19 17:30 ` Ulrich Mueller
2007-10-19 18:32 ` David Reitter
2007-10-19 23:45 ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-20 3:30 ` Richard Stallman
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