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Re: dired-view-command-alist
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David Kastrup |
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Re: dired-view-command-alist |
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Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:05:48 +0200 |
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Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 02:31:21AM +0200, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>> When more then one file is marked, it displays something like
>>
>> ! on * [3 files]: {3 guesses} [ghostview]
>>
>> in the minibuffer. The string "[3 files]" can be omitted because at
>> the same time the names of the marked files are displayed in a
>> separate window. Thus "! on *:" is sufficient.
>
> I disagree -- I find the "[3 files]" info useful. Despite the filenames
> being displayed in a separate, the presence of that string in the prompt is
> more noticeable (maybe that sounds surprising, but when I give a command that
> I know is going to prompt me, I tend to focus on the minibuffer, so a warning
> there is much more likely to wake me up than a new window).
>
> The presence of the actual number of files seems to have a similar effect:
> because it's not a fixed string, it's somehow more noticeable than for
> instance a simple "[multiple files]" would be.
>
> So I'd say keep the "[<N> files]" stuff in the prompt.
An a different tack, one of my proposals was to bind * to inserting a
text propertied string showing <marked files> or so. Perhaps it would
be more straightforward to just insert the file names themselves
(shell-quoted, of course).
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: dired-view-command-alist, Juri Linkov, 2004/10/02
- Re: dired-view-command-alist, Richard Stallman, 2004/10/06
- Re: dired-view-command-alist, Reinhard Kotucha, 2004/10/06
- Re: dired-view-command-alist, Richard Stallman, 2004/10/07
- Re: dired-view-command-alist, Juri Linkov, 2004/10/07