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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 19:46:56 +0300 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> > The following patch makes the prompt more readable:
>> >
>> > Send signal to 3 processes [TERM]:
>>
>> Sounds good to me.
>
> It could be confusing. Previously, the prompt was
>
> Send signal [TERM]
The previous prompt was:
Send signal [3 processes] (default TERM):
or with customized minibuffer-default-prompt-format:
Send signal [3 processes] [TERM]:
This was too confusing.
> So it was much more clear that "TERM" refers to "signal" and vice
> versa. Now we have "3 processes" in the way, and someone could think
> "TERM" refers to the processes or something.
>
> How about this instead:
>
> Signal N processes with [SIGTERM]:
>
> Note that I deliberately added the "SIG" part so that it would be more
> clear this is the name of a signal.
Sorry, the phrase "Signal N processes" is too difficult to comprehend -
it's diffucult to see that "signal" is a verb here.
bug#50935: minibuffer-electric-default-mode interface, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/03