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Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master? |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Sep 2015 12:02:42 +0300 |
> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 19:43:25 +0100
> From: Artur Malabarba <address@hidden>
> Cc: emacs-devel <address@hidden>, Brief Busters <address@hidden>,
> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>,
> Drew Adams <address@hidden>, Kaushal Modi <address@hidden>
>
> >> 2. User preferences vary. Some users never want to respond to
> >> a `yes-or-no-p' prompt. That's their choice. It should be easy
> >> for them to express their choice and have Emacs respect it.
> >
> > But if (1) is not enough, then I think we should fix the rest
> > of the use cases via a user option that redirects yes-or-no-p to
> > y-or-n-p. Requesting us to drag on with supporting such defaliases is
> > an unjustified maintenance burden.
>
> I agree with any solution that makes it possible. Be it user option or
> whatnot.
Does anyone see a reason why we even have 2 functions, instead of just
one that can either accept a single character or a string? Let alone
why yes-or-no-p is implemented in C, while y-or-n-p in Lisp?
Any objections to removing yes-or-no-p (with a defalias for backward
compatibility, of course) and making y-or-n-p serve both duties,
controlled by some defcustom?
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, (continued)
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Tassilo Horn, 2015/09/03
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/03
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/09/03
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/03
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Artur Malabarba, 2015/09/03
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/03
- RE: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Drew Adams, 2015/09/03
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/03
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Artur Malabarba, 2015/09/03
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Kaushal Modi, 2015/09/03
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, David Kastrup, 2015/09/04
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/04
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Bastien, 2015/09/04
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Andreas Schwab, 2015/09/04
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Marcin Borkowski, 2015/09/04
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, David Kastrup, 2015/09/04
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Kaushal Modi, 2015/09/04
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/04
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Marcin Borkowski, 2015/09/04
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/09/05