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

[Michael Heerdegen]

Christian Seberino <cseberino@gmail.com> writes:

> (define-abbrev-table
>  'tramp-abbrev-table
>  '(("d"  "/ssh:cs@philfour.com:/home/cs/Ws")
>    ("dr" "/ssh:cs@philfour.com|su:philfour.com:/home")
>    ("w"  "/ssh:cs@services.philfour.com:/home/webwork_custom")
>    ("wr" "/ssh:cs@services.philfour.com|su:services.philfour.com:/home")))
>
> (add-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook (lambda ()
>                                   (abbrev-mode t)
>                                   (setq local-abbrev-table
> tramp-abbrev-table)))
>
> (defadvice minibuffer-complete
>            (before my-minibuffer-complete activate)
>            (expand-abbrev))

I tried this and invoked `find-file-read-args'.  I don't see any tab
character inserted or being left, I get the expected behavior, with all
Emacs versions I tried.  Of course I can't connect to your hosts.

But really, all the trouble you may provoke with your hack is IMHO much
worse than getting used to the "Find file" wording.


Michael.