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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 46594@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 21:26:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <834ki1tggh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9ahi9uk.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Wed, 24 Feb 2021 20:44:51 +0200)

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 20:44:51 +0200
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
>  "46594@debbugs.gnu.org" <46594@debbugs.gnu.org>
> 
> +** New variable 'use-short-answers' to use 'y-or-n-p' instead of 'yes-or-no-p'.
> +This relieves of the need to define an alias that maps one to another
> +in the init file.

is this only about y-or-n-p vs yes-or-no-p?  Or do we expect to use
this variable for other answers?  In the former case, perhaps the name
of the variable should include "yes-or-no" somewhere, since
"use-short-answers" sounds too general to hint on its use, IMO.





  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-24 19:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-17 18:59 bug#46594: Use short answers Juri Linkov
2021-02-22 15:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-22 17:13   ` bug#46594: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-24 18:44     ` Juri Linkov
2021-02-24 19:26       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-02-24 19:49         ` Juri Linkov
2021-02-24 20:27           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-24 20:50             ` Juri Linkov
2021-02-25 15:04               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-25 18:45                 ` Juri Linkov
2021-02-24 23:55       ` Drew Adams
2021-02-25  9:20         ` Juri Linkov
2021-02-25 16:40           ` Drew Adams

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