From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: problem with the "You can run the command ..." message Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2022 01:55:10 +0200 Message-ID: <87v8vo4d5t.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87wng5fyqk.fsf@zoho.eu> <874k38h1dd.fsf@web.de> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="583"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:9swldpliygpIDwB3BsHexIVFm9Q= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 05 02:16:00 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nbWrY-000AUn-Ns for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2022 02:16:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56214 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nbWrX-0000ZE-Ds for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2022 20:15:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52648) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nbWXa-0005lI-Kr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2022 19:55:22 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:60946) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nbWXZ-00082O-19 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2022 19:55:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nbWXW-0007K1-PV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2022 01:55:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 04 Apr 2022 20:14:59 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:136847 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen wrote: >> Try, with a region >> >> M-x count-region RET > > Do you mean `count-words-region' maybe? - because Emacs doesn't have > that command. You are right, I had that (defalias 'count-region #'count-words-region) Actually that alias isn't bad as it is shorter and `count-words-region' doesn't just count words. >> You see the answer in the echo area for only a short while, >> then it gets replaced with >> >> You can run the command ‘count-region’ with M-x cou-r RET >> >> so you can't see the data queried for just one second ago. >> Not good! > > Can be slightly annoying yes, the usefulness of the feature > is arguable. ikr? And when in doubt intuitively and one can easily think of _two_ reasons not to do something, the one shouldn't do it. (Works vice versa as well.) > But note that if you wait for another short while, the > result is back - and it stays. OK. Well, now it is disabled anyway. It seems this (setq suggest-key-bindings nil extended-command-suggest-shorter nil) did it. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal