Re: master cd0a795: Output number of characters added to file (Bug#354)

[Mark Oteiza]

address@hidden (Noam Postavsky) writes:

> branch: master
> commit cd0a7951fb762570c4b9c2cdbb43c94cb68910d4
> Author: Jeff Clough <address@hidden>
> Commit: Noam Postavsky <address@hidden>
>
>     Output number of characters added to file (Bug#354)
>     
>     * fileio.c (write_region):
>     * epa-file.el (epa-file-write-region):
>     * jka-compr.el (jka-compr-write-region):
>     * ange-ftp.el (ange-ftp-write-region):
>     * tramp-gvfs.el (tramp-gvfs-handle-write-region):
>     * tramp-sh.el (tramp-sh-handle-write-region):
>     * mm-util.el (mm-append-to-file): Functions now output
>     characters written in addition to file name.
>     * files.texi: Added documentation to write-region and
>     append-to-file describing their output.

This behavior is unnecessarily verbose, at least when just interactively
saving buffers.  Haven't tested this otherwise.  If I cared about the
number of characters in the buffer I'd look in the mode line or just do
C-x =.

I can't say I've ever been surprised as described in the original
report.