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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Non-printable characters message too spacy
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:58:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pknr5flaxf3.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eiblds2y.fsf@jidanni.org>

jidanni@jidanni.org writes:

> Instead of saying:
>
> Non-printable characters found.  Continue sending?:
>
> d: Remove non-printable characters and send                  r: Replace non-printable characters with "." and send       
> i: Ignore non-printable characters and send                  e: Continue editing                                          
>
> Why not say
>
> Non-printable characters found.  Continue sending?:
> d: Remove non-printable characters and send
> r: Replace non-printable characters with "." and send
> i: Ignore non-printable characters and send
> e: Continue editing
>

Yes, plus either have y == i and n == e, or phrase the question as
'Choose an option: d/r/i/e/?

> I.e., more tidy.
>
> Also say
> i: Ignore non-printable characters and send them too anyway

I think the existing wording is fine.

Robert




  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-20 11:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-20 11:25 jidanni
2010-10-20 11:58 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2010-10-20 14:52   ` Michael Cook
2010-10-20 15:14     ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-21  0:38       ` Michael Cook
2010-10-21  1:29       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-21  1:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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