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bug#55041: 28.1; repeat-mode always prints message when enabled
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Howard Melman |
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bug#55041: 28.1; repeat-mode always prints message when enabled |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 10:30:42 -0400 |
On Jun 22, 2022, at 9:30 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> I could inhibit messages for those two but it seems a little messy.
>
> Please don't: those messages are both informative and important.
The context was in my own config.
Could you explain why you find them important? Why is it important
that I know recent is trimming some items when it reaches its max
limit? That's just normal behavior.
Why is it important I know how many commands repeat-mode affects?
Other minor-modes (like cua-mode) don't tell me or log how many
bindings they provide. And the "see describe-repeat-maps" point is in
the command's docstring which is the most natural place for it.
Both of these strike me as useful only when debugging.
To sum up so far:
Juri> This is exactly the reason why it outputs its statistics to *Messages*,
Juri> But if the majority will prefer to remove it, then I could
Juri> commit such a patch. So we need just one additional vote that
Juri> supports this change :)
Howard> I also found that recentf does something similar. So if a few
Howard> things give these informational messages (particularly to
Howard> *Messages*) then I have no complaints. Seeing just the one I
Howard> thought it might be violating a convention. Feel free to
Howard> close this.
But clearly I don't find these message useful :)
Lars> I vote for keeping the message, but I have no strong opinion.
Lars> I can't remember what my reasoning was back then, and looking at
Lars> it again, I agree with you -- it doesn't really seem very useful
Lars> to a user.
StefanK> Personally, I think we should remove both the recentf-mode
StefanK> and repeat-mode messages here. I don't find either of them
StefanK> very helpful or interesting.
Eli> Please don't: those messages are both informative and important.
Howard
- bug#55041: 28.1; repeat-mode always prints message when enabled, (continued)
- bug#55041: 28.1; repeat-mode always prints message when enabled, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/06/19
- bug#55041: 28.1; repeat-mode always prints message when enabled, Juri Linkov, 2022/06/20
- bug#55041: 28.1; repeat-mode always prints message when enabled, Howard Melman, 2022/06/20
- bug#55041: 28.1; repeat-mode always prints message when enabled, Stefan Kangas, 2022/06/21
- bug#55041: 28.1; repeat-mode always prints message when enabled, Juri Linkov, 2022/06/21
- bug#55041: 28.1; repeat-mode always prints message when enabled, Drew Adams, 2022/06/21
- bug#55041: 28.1; repeat-mode always prints message when enabled, Howard Melman, 2022/06/21
- bug#55041: 28.1; repeat-mode always prints message when enabled, Juri Linkov, 2022/06/22
- bug#55041: 28.1; repeat-mode always prints message when enabled, Howard Melman, 2022/06/22
- bug#55041: 28.1; repeat-mode always prints message when enabled, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/06/22
- bug#55041: 28.1; repeat-mode always prints message when enabled,
Howard Melman <=
- bug#55041: 28.1; repeat-mode always prints message when enabled, Drew Adams, 2022/06/22
- bug#55041: 28.1; repeat-mode always prints message when enabled, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/06/22
- bug#55041: 28.1; repeat-mode always prints message when enabled, Howard Melman, 2022/06/22
- bug#55041: 28.1; repeat-mode always prints message when enabled, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/06/22
- bug#55041: 28.1; repeat-mode always prints message when enabled, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/06/23
- bug#55041: 28.1; repeat-mode always prints message when enabled, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/06/23
- bug#55041: 28.1; repeat-mode always prints message when enabled, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/06/23
- bug#55041: 28.1; repeat-mode always prints message when enabled, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/06/23
- bug#55041: 28.1; repeat-mode always prints message when enabled, Juri Linkov, 2022/06/22
- bug#55041: 28.1; repeat-mode always prints message when enabled, Howard Melman, 2022/06/22