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bug#54173: 28.0.91; Training wheels for query-replace
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#54173: 28.0.91; Training wheels for query-replace |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Mar 2022 21:24:05 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>>> I'm not sure I understood the patch. Is the proposal to append all that
>>> to "Query replacing foo with bar"? It'll make prompts commonly be
>>> longer than a line, and it's pretty noisy, so if that's the proposal,
>>> I'm against it.
>>
>> Well, yes, that's the proposal...
>>
>> At least now that string is a defvar that you can set to nil if you want
>> to save some columns :-)
>
> I'm including Juri in this thread so maybe we can get one more opinion.
>
> Let me also say that we could modify the patch so that the help message
> remains the same, i.e., just “(? for help)”. Then at least it's not
> hardcoded anymore.
Please don't change the default succinct prompt.
If you think someone might want to display reminders for some rarely used
keys, then a variable with a help string would be fine.