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: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 21:49:19 +0200 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <87h7m1gsao.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <87im6qikpo.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <878s7gjftt.fsf@gnus.org> <87v9ahi9uk.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <834ki1tggh.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25417"; 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: larsi@gnus.org, 46594@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 24 20:51:12 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 1lF0Bk-0006W3-EV for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2021 20:51:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43824 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lF0Bj-0006rP-8N for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2021 14:51:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59228) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lF0Ba-0006nt-KL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2021 14:51:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:52677) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lF0Ba-0000mJ-C5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2021 14:51:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lF0Ba-0005NJ-9g for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2021 14:51:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Juri Linkov Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 19:51:02 +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=B46594.161419621920612 (code B ref 46594); Wed, 24 Feb 2021 19:51:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 46594) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Feb 2021 19:50:19 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35990 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lF0As-0005MO-Pi for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2021 14:50:19 -0500 Original-Received: from relay3-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.195]:59299) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lF0Ar-0005M8-7G for 46594@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2021 14:50:17 -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 relay3-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B5BAD60003; Wed, 24 Feb 2021 19:50:09 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <834ki1tggh.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 24 Feb 2021 21:26:38 +0200") 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:200754 Archived-At: >> +** 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. This is not only about about y-or-n-p/yes-or-no-p. It also affects the function 'read-answer' and its option 'read-answer-short'. BTW, a related question: maybe recently added 'y-or-n-p-use-read-key' and 'read-char-choice-use-read-key' could be joined into one option, e.g. 'use-read-key'?