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bug#8180: 24.0.50; verbose, confusing y-or-n-p prompts in `find-file-no-
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#8180: 24.0.50; verbose, confusing y-or-n-p prompts in `find-file-no-select' |
Date: |
Sun, 01 May 2016 19:59:01 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> The annoying dialog you get uses multiple lines of text (6!) to prompt
> in the minibuffer (or in a popup, depending on how you invoke the
> function) for a y-or-n answer. The prompt text is *far* too long and
> pretty much incomprehensible to an average user. This is the `y-or-n-p'
> prompt (including its line breaks):
>
> "The file maybe-a-very-long-file-name.jpg is already visited literally,
> meaning no coding system decoding, format conversion, or local variables.
> You have asked to visit it normally,
> but Emacs can only visit a file in one way at a time.
>
> Do you want to revisit the file normally now? (y or n) "
>
> That is _ridiculously_ long and confusing. It is horribly user
> unfriendly. `find-file-noselect' is now filled to the gills with such
> gobbledygook prompts, each more twisted and verbose than the next.
I don't think it's gobbledygook. You only get a prompt like that if
you've previously visited a file literally, and then you probably know
what that is, because just about the only way to get such a buffer is by
using the `M-x find-file-literally' command.
So I don't see anything to fix here. Closing.
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- bug#8180: 24.0.50; verbose, confusing y-or-n-p prompts in `find-file-no-select',
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