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