On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 9:06 PM Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> >
> > Why then it writes that has written 8 characters?
>
> Because it's counting buffer characters, not file system characters. This
> reminds me, these newly-added "(N characters)" messages are unpopular so I
> just
> now turned them off by default; see Bug#26796.
>

Thanks. I also did not find them useful.
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Kaushal Modi