From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 11:20:34 +0200 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <87a6rsec65.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <87im6qikpo.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <878s7gjftt.fsf@gnus.org> <87v9ahi9uk.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6963"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen , "46594@debbugs.gnu.org" <46594@debbugs.gnu.org> To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 25 10:23:15 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lFCrb-0001h8-8d for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 10:23:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42958 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lFCra-0003dG-7u for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 04:23:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49300) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lFCrO-0003aO-Tf for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 04:23:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:53341) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lFCrO-0002OH-Lp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 04:23:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lFCrO-0001Sh-Fh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 04:23:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Juri Linkov Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:23:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 46594 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 46594-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B46594.16142449405556 (code B ref 46594); Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:23:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 46594) by debbugs.gnu.org; 25 Feb 2021 09:22:20 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36654 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lFCqi-0001RW-8u for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 04:22:20 -0500 Original-Received: from relay7-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.200]:38095) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lFCqf-0001RD-QF for 46594@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 04:22:18 -0500 X-Originating-IP: 91.129.96.116 Original-Received: from mail.gandi.net (m91-129-96-116.cust.tele2.ee [91.129.96.116]) (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by relay7-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9C3DD20010; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:22:09 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Wed, 24 Feb 2021 23:55:30 +0000") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:200774 Archived-At: > I'm not sure we should include this: > > and giving the wrong answer would have serious consequences > > That's not necessary, IMO. Not even if you change > "would" (which is wrong) to "could". I copied this text verbatim from the Emacs manual from the node (info "(emacs) Yes or No Prompts"): The second type of yes-or-no query is typically employed if giving the wrong answer would have serious consequences; it thus features a longer prompt ending with ‘(yes or no)’. Now I noticed it has "if" before. > It's enough to say that presumably yes-or-no-p is > used so you take time and perhaps think more about > the answer. No need to imply serious consequences. > > Why do we say this? > > In this case it means also obeying the value of > `y-or-n-p-use-read-key'. > > Doesn't that follow, if the behavior is that of > y-or-n-p (I don't know)? If it does, then just > refer them to the doc for y-or-n-p; don't repeat > any of that doc here. Ok.