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

[Chris Seberino]

Michael

I tried using the function below....the advice-add part gave an error..

 function definition is void: advice-add
(Emacs ver 24.3)

When I removed the advice-add part it seems to work!!  i.e. this works...

(defun my-find-file-around-ad (origfun &rest args)
  (interactive
   (find-file-read-args "Open file: "
                        (confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer)))
  (apply origfun args))

The only problem is when I use TAB completion to replace abbreviations,
it appends the TAB to the end instead of *replacing it*....find-file
does it right and I was hoping using find-file-read-args would work right
too but it didn't.  Do you know why TAB remains unlike with find-file?

On Friday, January 30, 2015 at 2:42:46 AM UTC-6, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> Christian Seberino <cseberino@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Perhaps it would be feasible/easier to somehow add all those wonderful
> > features (TAB completion and abbreviations)
> > to my own wrapper functions? How hard is *that* by comparision?
> 
> Actually it is not hard, at least for this specific case and in Emacs >=
> 24 (didn't check older Emacsen):
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (defun my-find-file-around-ad (origfun &rest args)
>   (interactive
>    (find-file-read-args "Open file: "
>                         (confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer)))
>   (apply origfun args))
> 
> (advice-add 'find-file :around #'my-find-file-around-ad)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> But I think in the long term it's better to get used to the Emacs
> nomenclature.
> 
> 
> Michael.