From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/73349 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Pluim Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Non-printable characters message too spacy Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:58:06 +0200 Organization: not if I can help it Message-ID: References: <87eiblds2y.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287575907 5400 80.91.229.12 (20 Oct 2010 11:58:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:58:27 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M21720@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Oct 20 13:58:26 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P8XJJ-0006kH-Vf for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:58:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P8XJH-0004RC-81; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 06:58:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P8XJF-0004Qv-OM for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 06:58:21 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P8XJE-0006Vt-VW for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 06:58:21 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P8XJE-0002kA-00 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:58:20 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P8XJE-0006je-4h for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:58:20 +0200 Original-Received: from lns-bzn-49f-81-56-191-143.adsl.proxad.net ([81.56.191.143]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:58:20 +0200 Original-Received: from rpluim by lns-bzn-49f-81-56-191-143.adsl.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:58:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lns-bzn-49f-81-56-191-143.adsl.proxad.net Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) XEmacs/21.5-b29 (cygwin32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Nel60u4UaxJarrOsLkkn2nV/Owk= X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:73349 Archived-At: 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