From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: [OT] Re: Easy/Possible to globally change prompt strings of messages? e.g. changing find-file's prompt string from "Find file:" to "open file:" ? Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 08:33:05 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <95671e72-ab0d-4615-9211-7a5f338f6a32@default> References: <90b92a22-d34c-4f7e-953e-74444f42e767@googlegroups.com> <54CB109E.1030802@gmail.com> <87h9v8bqxh.fsf@web.de> <87r3ucgs0p.fsf_-_@reader.local.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422635616 6265 80.91.229.3 (30 Jan 2015 16:33:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 16:33:36 +0000 (UTC) To: Harry Putnam , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 30 17:33:29 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 1YHEVc-0003Hv-R3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2015 17:33:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37612 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHEVc-0006EF-6k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:33:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48827) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHEVR-0006EA-Vt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:33:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHEVJ-0006RG-Bl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:33:17 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:43034) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHEVJ-0006RA-64 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:33:09 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id t0UGX7Eq003036 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 30 Jan 2015 16:33:08 GMT Original-Received: from userz7022.oracle.com (userz7022.oracle.com [156.151.31.86]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t0UGX6UM014105 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 30 Jan 2015 16:33:07 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0016.oracle.com (abhmp0016.oracle.com [141.146.116.22]) by userz7022.oracle.com (8.14.5+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t0UGX5iY023728; Fri, 30 Jan 2015 16:33:06 GMT In-Reply-To: <87r3ucgs0p.fsf_-_@reader.local.lan> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8.2 (807160) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 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:102384 Archived-At: > ,---- > | (defun my-find-file-around-ad (origfun &rest args) > | (interactive > | (find-file-read-args "Open file: " > | (confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer))) > | (apply origfun args)) > | (advice-add 'find-file :around #'my-find-file-around-ad) > `---- >=20 > The section of the previous post, boxed in above, appears in my gnus read= er > as medium green background. So, set off from the rest of the post by a > completely different background color. I've seen this a number of times > and would like to know how it is done? Library boxquote.el: http://www.davep.org/emacs/#boxquote.el