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28.0.91; Training wheels for query-replace

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Message #44 received at 54173 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 54173 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>,
 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Re: bug#54173: 28.0.91; Training wheels for query-replace
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 21:24:05 +0200

>>> I'm not sure I understood the patch.  Is the proposal to append all that
>>> to "Query replacing foo with bar"?  It'll make prompts commonly be
>>> longer than a line, and it's pretty noisy, so if that's the proposal,
>>> I'm against it.
>>
>> Well, yes, that's the proposal...
>>
>> At least now that string is a defvar that you can set to nil if you want
>> to save some columns :-)
>
> I'm including Juri in this thread so maybe we can get one more opinion.
>
> Let me also say that we could modify the patch so that the help message
> remains the same, i.e., just “(? for help)”.  Then at least it's not
> hardcoded anymore.

Please don't change the default succinct prompt.

If you think someone might want to display reminders for some rarely used
keys, then a variable with a help string would be fine.

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