From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
Cc: 30073@debbugs.gnu.org, juri@linkov.net
Subject: bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 17:52:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83po6g4cky.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o9m1nlpl.fsf@gmail.com> (contovob@tcd.ie)
> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 03:00:38 +0000
> Cc: 30073@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:
>
> > I customized ‘yes-or-no-p’ in ~/.emacs to short answers:
> >
> > (fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)
> >
> > but now ‘dired-do-delete’ ignores this customization, and always requires
> > typing a full answer “yes” with RET when deleting recursively all subdirs,
> > instead of accepting just a single letter ‘y’ as before the recent change.
> >
> > I think in this case better is to accept ‘y’ for “yes”, and ‘!’ for “all”
> > like in ‘query-replace-map’.
>
> Just linking bug#27940, where the move away from using yes-or-no-p in
> function dired-delete-file was discussed:
>
> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=27940
Indeed, this horse has been beaten to death already. The current
solution is for you to set dired-deletion-confirmer to y-or-n-p.
Admittedly, that's not a very user-friendly customization method, but
then neither is fset.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-11 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-10 21:41 bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers Juri Linkov
2018-01-11 3:00 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-01-11 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-01-11 17:34 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-01-11 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-11 19:39 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-01-11 21:57 ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-11 21:54 ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-12 9:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-13 22:38 ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-14 11:01 ` Tino Calancha
2018-01-14 22:53 ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-15 5:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-15 23:02 ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-16 17:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-17 22:56 ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-18 21:11 ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-15 17:01 ` Drew Adams
2018-01-15 23:13 ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-16 0:48 ` Drew Adams
2018-01-17 22:03 ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-18 3:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-18 21:12 ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-21 21:46 ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-25 18:04 ` Drew Adams
2018-01-25 21:20 ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-25 21:48 ` Drew Adams
2018-01-26 7:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-27 21:20 ` Juri Linkov
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