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bug#50935: minibuffer-electric-default-mode interface
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#50935: minibuffer-electric-default-mode interface |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Oct 2021 09:43:49 +0300 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> A third option is to add 'minibuffer-default-prompt-format' on emacs-28,
> but make the suggested deletion on master -- which give us more time to
> get `minibuffer-default-prompt-format' up to scrap.
>
> Thoughts?
Thanks for adding format-prompt to many more prompts. I noticed
that when minibuffer-default-prompt-format is customized to the
recommended format " [%s]", then the prompt of proced-send-signal
is confusing with two pairs of the same brackets:
Send signal [3 processes] [TERM]:
The following patch makes the prompt more readable:
Send signal to 3 processes [TERM]:
diff --git a/lisp/proced.el b/lisp/proced.el
index 29996068f9..cb66d68302 100644
--- a/lisp/proced.el
+++ b/lisp/proced.el
@@ -1773,7 +1773,7 @@ proced-send-signal
`(:annotation-function
,(lambda (s) (cdr (assoc s proced-signal-list))))))
(proced-with-processes-buffer process-alist
- (list (completing-read (format-prompt "Send signal [%s]"
+ (list (completing-read (format-prompt "Send signal to %s"
"TERM" pnum)
proced-signal-list
nil nil nil nil "TERM")
@@ -1798,7 +1798,7 @@ proced-send-signal
`(:annotation-function
,(lambda (s) (cdr (assoc s proced-signal-list))))))
(proced-with-processes-buffer process-alist
- (setq signal (completing-read (format-prompt "Send signal [%s]"
+ (setq signal (completing-read (format-prompt "Send signal to %s"
"TERM" pnum)
proced-signal-list
nil nil nil nil "TERM"))))))
bug#50935: minibuffer-electric-default-mode interface, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/03