From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 43593@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43593: 27.1; `customize-set-variable': wrong prompt for Boolean value
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 20:26:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d02bt7ah.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8c3c3f0f-c6ed-4883-b815-1f729879f0d3@default> (message from Drew Adams on Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:09:57 -0700 (PDT))
> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:09:57 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>
> emacs -Q
>
> (defcustom bar nil
> "@@@"
> :type 'boolean :group 'convenience)
>
> M-x customize-set-variable bar
> Set variable: bar
>
> The prompt for the Boolean value is this:
>
> [boolean] Set customized value for bar to: (y or n)
>
> Set it to WHAT?
To 'y' or to 'n'.
FWIW, I see no problem here, and would understand immediately what is
meant. We do this kind of "translation" of boolean values a'll the
time in Customize. Let's keep in mind that Customize is for users
that aren't Lisp programmers, so we don't want to request them to know
what Lisp boolean data looks like.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-24 17:26 UTC|newest]
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2020-09-24 17:09 bug#43593: 27.1; `customize-set-variable': wrong prompt for Boolean value Drew Adams
2020-09-24 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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[not found] ` <<83d02bt7ah.fsf@gnu.org>
2020-09-24 18:14 ` Drew Adams
2021-06-06 11:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-06 15:17 ` bug#43593: [External] : " Drew Adams
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