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From: jidanni@jidanni.org
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: bug#354: "Added (how many lines, bytes?!) to file.txt"
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:37:52 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r6bemkjj.fsf@jidanni.org> (raw)

Gentlemen, (I sound like Prince's "Partyman" song)
I noticed all append-to-file says is
"Added to /var/neurdsbeurg.txt".

The problem is often the user thinks "good, thanks", when days later
he discovers few or no lines got added, that's right, even 0 bytes
will produce the same message. You see often we are not fully aware of
the extent of our regions, colored or not, especially when extending
off the screen.

Therefore I propose you change that message to say instead how many
line or bytes or characters or both or all three were copied over.

All this of course also applies to write-region.







             reply	other threads:[~2008-06-03 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-03 18:37 jidanni [this message]
2008-06-03 21:07 ` bug#354: "Added (how many lines, bytes?!) to file.txt" Stefan Monnier
2008-06-06  4:02 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-06-06 14:56   ` Drew Adams
2015-02-27  7:21 ` Paul Eggert
2015-02-27 13:52   ` Jeff Clough
2017-03-14  0:58     ` npostavs
2017-03-14 15:55       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-01  4:27         ` npostavs
2017-04-01  6:09           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-02  3:55             ` npostavs
2017-04-02  6:16               ` Andreas Schwab
2017-04-02 16:10                 ` npostavs
2017-04-02 15:52               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-02 18:24               ` Paul Eggert
2017-04-02 18:40                 ` npostavs
2017-04-02 18:44                   ` Paul Eggert
2017-04-02 19:09                     ` npostavs
2017-04-07  2:27                       ` npostavs
2017-04-10  2:17 ` npostavs

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