Re: Easy/Possible to globally change prompt strings of messages? e.g. changing find-file's prompt string from "Find file:" to "open file:" ?

[Michael Heerdegen]

Christian Seberino <cseberino@gmail.com> writes:

> Perhaps it would be feasible/easier to somehow add all those wonderful
> features (TAB completion and abbreviations)
> to my own wrapper functions? How hard is *that* by comparision?

Actually it is not hard, at least for this specific case and in Emacs >=
24 (didn't check older Emacsen):

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(defun my-find-file-around-ad (origfun &rest args)
  (interactive
   (find-file-read-args "Open file: "
                        (confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer)))
  (apply origfun args))

(advice-add 'find-file :around #'my-find-file-around-ad)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

But I think in the long term it's better to get used to the Emacs
nomenclature.


Michael.