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bug#19152: 25.0.50; "You can run the command `debug-on-entry' with M-x d


From: Alan Mackenzie
Subject: bug#19152: 25.0.50; "You can run the command `debug-on-entry' with M-x deb-o RET"
Date: 23 Nov 2014 18:54:41 -0000
User-agent: tin/2.2.0-20131224 ("Lochindaal") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/8.4-RELEASE (amd64))

In article <mailman.14373.1416741437.1147.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> you wrote:
> Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> Please remove such silly messages, which do not tell users about a *key
>> sequence* bound to the command they entered.

+1

> Actually I find these messages very instructive for people like me,
> which had no idea about this (new with Emacs-25?) abbreviation ability!

Which is of questionable value and questionable safety.  Read the anecdote
in entry "DWIM" of the New Hacker's Dictionary (about somebody having his
command "delete *$" helpfully interpreted as "delete *") to see why.

This feature is even present in Emacs 24.3.  I'm now going to find out how
to turn it off, once and for all.

>        Dieter

> -- 
> Best wishes
> H. Dieter Wilhelm
> Darmstadt, Germany

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).






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