GNU bug report logs - #19152
25.0.50; "You can run the command `debug-on-entry' with M-x deb-o RET"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 03:16:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 25.0.50

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 19152 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger <at> gmail.com>
To: 19152 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: jay.p.belanger <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#19152: 25.0.50;
 "You can run the command `debug-on-entry' with M-x deb-o RET"
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 09:41:10 -0600

dieter <at> duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) writes:
> Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:
>
>> Please remove such silly messages, which do not tell users about a *key
>> sequence* bound to the command they entered.
>
> Actually I find these messages very instructive for people like me,
> which had no idea about this (new with Emacs-25?) abbreviation ability!

Do you use the abbreviations a lot?

The full M-x commands have descriptive names and are always available; the
abbreviations given have neither of these qualities.  Like Drew, I find the
messages to be noise.

Jay
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