From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: bug#354: "Added (how many lines, bytes?!) to file.txt"
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:02:08 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <g2acs1$uk1$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r6bemkjj.fsf@jidanni.org>
jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> Gentlemen, (I sound like Prince's "Partyman" song)
> I noticed all append-to-file says is
> "Added to /var/neurdsbeurg.txt".
>
> The problem is often the user thinks "good, thanks", when days later
> he discovers few or no lines got added, that's right, even 0 bytes
> will produce the same message. You see often we are not fully aware of
> the extent of our regions, colored or not, especially when extending
> off the screen.
>
> Therefore I propose you change that message to say instead how many
> line or bytes or characters or both or all three were copied over.
Since append-to-file takes buffer positions as arguments, I think
the most relevant unit to report would be characters.
> All this of course also applies to write-region.
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-06 4:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-03 18:37 bug#354: "Added (how many lines, bytes?!) to file.txt" jidanni
2008-06-03 21:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-06 4:02 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2008-06-06 14:56 ` Drew Adams
2015-02-27 7:21 ` Paul Eggert
2015-02-27 13:52 ` Jeff Clough
2017-03-14 0:58 ` npostavs
2017-03-14 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-01 4:27 ` npostavs
2017-04-01 6:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-02 3:55 ` npostavs
2017-04-02 6:16 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-04-02 16:10 ` npostavs
2017-04-02 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-02 18:24 ` Paul Eggert
2017-04-02 18:40 ` npostavs
2017-04-02 18:44 ` Paul Eggert
2017-04-02 19:09 ` npostavs
2017-04-07 2:27 ` npostavs
2017-04-10 2:17 ` npostavs
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