From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>, 30073@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 23:57:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bmi0f49e.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <838td446mk.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 11 Jan 2018 20:01:23 +0200")
>> FWIW, I find
>>
>> (advice-add 'yes-or-no-p :override #'y-or-n-p)
>>
>> to be a slightly user-friendlier alternative to
>>
>> (fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)
>>
>> as the former is at least reported by the help system.
>
> IMO, none of that is user-friendly as customization goes. These are
> semi-kludgey hacks, which are okay for personal use, but not as
> advertised customization means. YMMV, of course.
Maybe we should introduce a boolean customizable variable with a name
‘minibuffer-short-answers’ to be used by different packages that
currently rely on ‘yes-or-no-p’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-11 21:57 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
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 [this message]
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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