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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: michael@cadilhac.name (Michaël Cadilhac)
Cc: juri@jurta.org, dann@ics.uci.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: suggestion for set-file-modes
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:29:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1JQq94-0002Qv-Ia@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d4qw2wf9.fsf@cadilhac.name> (michael@cadilhac.name)

    > The standard convention when reading a value in the minibuffer is to put
    > the default value in the prompt and make it available for editing by
    > M-n.

    First, if we have three different notations, why this one should be
    preferred as the default one?

Because I made the decision that way.  This is a general policy
I have adopted for Emacs.

What format the input should have is a separate question.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-17 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200801201812.m0KICxYl009632@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu>
     [not found] ` <871w7jqiic.fsf@cadilhac.name>
     [not found]   ` <200802112200.m1BM0pke028675@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu>
2008-02-11 23:41     ` suggestion for set-file-modes Michaël Cadilhac
2008-02-16 19:19       ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-16 23:07         ` Michaël Cadilhac
2008-02-16 23:27           ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-17  0:14             ` Michaël Cadilhac
2008-02-17  0:48               ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-17  1:08                 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-17  1:31                   ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-17  2:04                     ` Michaël Cadilhac
2008-02-17  2:21                       ` Miles Bader
2008-02-17 21:54                       ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-29 17:43                   ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-17  1:39                 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2008-02-17 20:29                   ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2008-02-18  3:01                     ` Michaël Cadilhac
2008-02-17 21:57                       ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-17 21:55                   ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-17 22:18                     ` Miles Bader
2008-02-17 22:59                       ` Juri Linkov

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