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Re: [patch] info: feedback messages in echo area want a period


From: Benno Schulenberg
Subject: Re: [patch] info: feedback messages in echo area want a period
Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 19:22:31 +0200

On Sun, May 21, 2017, at 18:45, Gavin Smith wrote:
> On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 05:15:54PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > By the way, you didn't change the feedback messages about
> > being on the first or last node.  Why?
> 
> I didn't see the point. The messages were not wrong.

Maybe not wrong, but not friendly, not "human".
"No 'Prev' or 'Up' for this node within this document"
is a techinal description of the situation, from the
point of view of the program, not of the human typing
the keys.  "This is the first node" makes more sense
and is more easily understood.

Benno

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