From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chris Seberino Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Easy/Possible to globally change prompt strings of messages? e.g. changing find-file's prompt string from "Find file:" to "open file:" ? Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 20:08:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <90b92a22-d34c-4f7e-953e-74444f42e767@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422591021 13245 80.91.229.3 (30 Jan 2015 04:10:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 04:10:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 30 05:10:21 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YH2uR-0003h0-WE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2015 05:10:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34682 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YH2uQ-0003YM-Rk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2015 23:10:18 -0500 X-Received: by 10.236.41.166 with SMTP id h26mr3480506yhb.37.1422590930291; Thu, 29 Jan 2015 20:08:50 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.182.33.65 with SMTP id p1mr33184obi.11.1422590930057; Thu, 29 Jan 2015 20:08:50 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!bm13no3915770qab.0!news-out.google.com!qk8ni19782igc.0!nntp.google.com!hl2no3625351igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=74.193.13.167; posting-account=VkuUtQkAAADKqMjRUmZTNs7a8uCSNNy2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 74.193.13.167 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 04:08:50 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:210098 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:102377 Archived-At: Is it easy/possible to change the prompt strings of various Emacs commands? For example, what Emacs calls find-file I think of as "opening a file" and hence would like to change the prompt from "Find file:" to "open file:". Are global changes like that possible/easy? Perhaps it would require an Lisp style macro or something? Thanks! cs