bug#1525: prompt string for execute-extended-command not flexible

[xah lee]

The prompt string for execute-extended-command is “M-x ”, but that  
is not correct if the command is bound to some other key by  
customization.

Kevin Rodgers gave this explanation recently in “gnu.emacs.help”:

«
seber...@spawar.navy.mil wrote:
> When you type a command in Emacs you are greeted with the prompt "M-
> x".  How change that prompt string?

Change this code in src/keyboard.c and recompile emacs:
   /* This isn't strictly correct if execute-extended-command
      is bound to anything else.  Perhaps it should use
      this_command_keys?  */
   strcat (buf, "M-x ");
--
Kevin Rodgers
»

So, possibly the promp can be changed to “Execute command ”.

Thanks.

  Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

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