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bug#51876: 28.0.60; Confusing prompt for setting a bookmark
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#51876: 28.0.60; Confusing prompt for setting a bookmark |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Nov 2021 09:12:23 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> This prompt is confusing: it doesn't make it clear that Emacs is
> prompting for the _name_ of the bookmark. The word "name" (or
> anything to that effect) doesn't appear anywhere within the prompt,
> and the suggested default, which is just the file name, makes the
> intent even harder to guess, because it sounds like Emacs asks whether
> to set a bookmark in this file.
Yes.
> I also think the "unconditionally" part should be removed: it makes me
> wonder why Emacs made a point of mentioning that at all. It also
> makes the prompt longer, thus harder to understand.
It's because of this:
---
With a prefix arg (non-nil NO-OVERWRITE), do not overwrite any
existing bookmark that has the same name as NAME, but instead push the
new bookmark onto the bookmark alist.
---
Perhaps
(if no-overwrite "Set bookmark" "Set bookmark unconditionally")))
should be
(if no-overwrite "Append bookmark" "Set bookmark")))
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- bug#51876: 28.0.60; Confusing prompt for setting a bookmark, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/11/15
- bug#51876: 28.0.60; Confusing prompt for setting a bookmark,
Lars Ingebrigtsen <=
- bug#51876: 28.0.60; Confusing prompt for setting a bookmark, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/11/16
- bug#51876: 28.0.60; Confusing prompt for setting a bookmark, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/11/17
- bug#51876: [External] : bug#51876: 28.0.60; Confusing prompt for setting a bookmark, Drew Adams, 2021/11/17
- bug#51876: 28.0.60; Confusing prompt for setting a bookmark, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/11/18
- bug#51876: [External] : bug#51876: 28.0.60; Confusing prompt for setting a bookmark, Drew Adams, 2021/11/18
- bug#51876: [External] : bug#51876: 28.0.60; Confusing prompt for setting a bookmark, Drew Adams, 2021/11/17
- bug#51876: [External] : bug#51876: 28.0.60; Confusing prompt for setting a bookmark, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/11/17