From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 8180@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8180: 24.0.50; verbose, confusing y-or-n-p prompts in `find-file-no-select'
Date: Sun, 01 May 2016 19:59:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lh3tzml6.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <435FEA4267C54CB2B558397723E571FE@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 5 Mar 2011 07:16:35 -0800")
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> The annoying dialog you get uses multiple lines of text (6!) to prompt
> in the minibuffer (or in a popup, depending on how you invoke the
> function) for a y-or-n answer. The prompt text is *far* too long and
> pretty much incomprehensible to an average user. This is the `y-or-n-p'
> prompt (including its line breaks):
>
> "The file maybe-a-very-long-file-name.jpg is already visited literally,
> meaning no coding system decoding, format conversion, or local variables.
> You have asked to visit it normally,
> but Emacs can only visit a file in one way at a time.
>
> Do you want to revisit the file normally now? (y or n) "
>
> That is _ridiculously_ long and confusing. It is horribly user
> unfriendly. `find-file-noselect' is now filled to the gills with such
> gobbledygook prompts, each more twisted and verbose than the next.
I don't think it's gobbledygook. You only get a prompt like that if
you've previously visited a file literally, and then you probably know
what that is, because just about the only way to get such a buffer is by
using the `M-x find-file-literally' command.
So I don't see anything to fix here. Closing.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-01 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-05 15:16 bug#8180: 24.0.50; verbose, confusing y-or-n-p prompts in `find-file-no-select' Drew Adams
2011-03-06 0:12 ` Chong Yidong
2016-04-28 10:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-28 13:41 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-01 17:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2016-05-01 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
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