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Multiline y-or-n prompt in files.el

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 5423 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Subject: bug#5423: Multiline y-or-n prompt in files.el
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 11:03:17 +0100

> I'm not sure just what you meant with "beginning of the prompt", but
> what I see is only the last line of the entire prompt message:
> "The file test is already visited literally,
> meaning no coding system handling, format conversion, or local variables.
> You have edited the buffer.  Now you have asked to visit the file normally,
> but Emacs can visit a file in only one way at a time.
>
> Do you want to save the file, and visit it normally instead? "

Why can't that prompt just say

"File's buffer modified, save it and visit file normally afterwards?"

martin

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