Subject: Re: bug#76235: [PATCH] Improve prompt for 'project-switch-project'

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:06:24 +0200

On 18/02/2025 19:13, Juri Linkov wrote:
>>>>> Maybe better to make the prompt configurable
>>>>> (not defcustom, but only a variable,
>>>>> so it's easy to apply properties with face).
>>>>> Then I'd like to change it to just "[%s]" to save space.
>>>>> A longer explanatory text is more suitable for everyone
>>>>> who use the command infrequently.
>>>> Could we reuse that variable in both commands?
>>> Sharing the same variable would be nice.
>>
>> Like this?
> 
> Whatever, then I'd change it anyway to something with
> square brackets since with brackets it looked better for e.g.
> 'C-x 4 p p' with [other-window] prefix in brackets too:
> 
>    [execute in ...]:[other-window]-
> 
> (And 'completing-read-multiple' now uses brackets too.)

completing-read-multiple uses brackets for a side note - which does not 
replace the prompt.

The example above also uses brackets for the name of an input event.

Using them to surround the prompt in project-other-project is a third, 
different purpose. Seems superfluous: the colon already separates the 
prompt.