Re: Easy/Possible to globally change prompt strings of messages? e.g. changing find-file's prompt string from "Find file:" to "open file:" ?

[Christian Seberino]

On 01/30/2015 08:41 AM, Drew Adams wrote:
> But yes, you certainly can call `find-file-read-args' (or 
> `read-file-name') yourself, passing it any prompt you like. You will 
> get all of the usual TAB completion etc. - no problem. 

Can I ask if the 2 functions you mentioned above would fix a minor 
problem with this simple wrapper below?...

(defun my-find-file (name)
       (interactive "sopen file: ")
       (find-file name))

The TAB completion for abbreviations works great with one problem....the 
TAB is not removed but APPENDED
to end of replacement.

So after pressing day "d" + "TAB" instead of getting this...

"/ssh:me@example.com:/home/me/some/path"

I see this

"/ssh:me@example.com:/home/me/some/path         "
(Notice the TAB at end!)



How remove the TAB?   Somehow the insert works differently when a custom
interactive file is called versus when find-file does it?

cs