From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
Cc: 27940@debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni@jidanni.org
Subject: bug#27940: Recursively delete dir34? (yes, no, all, quit)
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 09:22:26 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3b5babc7-324e-437b-88a1-c234b883c257@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1708050116210.11976@calancha-pc>
> > Is it a good idea to mix `yes-or-no-p'-style (minibuffer) input,
> > such as `yes' and `no', with `read-char'-style input, such as `!'
> > and `q'? I don't think so, a priori. Especially for `!', which
> > has worse repercussions in case of a mistake than does `y'. No?
> Agreed. If you see my first answer i was reluctant to allow the dangerous
> operation.
> I will use "all" and "quit" instead of "!", "q".
>
> * Question:
> Do we need to show the help after this change?
I would say yes, for the help. Think of `yes-or-no-p'.
If you type `foo' to `yes-or-no-p' it helps you. Here
we should offer more help, explaining the possibilities.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-04 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-03 23:26 bug#27940: Recursively delete dir34? (yes, no, all, quit) 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2017-08-04 8:25 ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-04 8:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-04 9:29 ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-04 9:37 ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-04 12:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-04 14:33 ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-04 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-06 4:52 ` Tino Calancha
[not found] ` <87k22e9obk.fsf@ctlt579.codethink.co.uk>
2017-08-09 5:54 ` Tino Calancha
2017-10-15 14:17 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-10-16 5:20 ` Tino Calancha
2017-10-16 10:36 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-10-16 10:43 ` Tino Calancha
2017-10-17 12:40 ` Noam Postavsky
[not found] ` <<871sorz9kg.fsf@calancha-pc>
[not found] ` <<83tw1nwfhp.fsf@gnu.org>
2017-08-04 15:51 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-04 16:18 ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-04 16:22 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2017-08-04 16:34 ` Tino Calancha
[not found] <<87o9rwxmfz.fsf@jidanni.org>
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