From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
To: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 27979@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27979: tab completion for "(yes or no)?"
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2017 15:59:33 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r2wp6v1m.fsf@calancha-pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lgmxh6w5.fsf@jidanni.org> ("積丹尼 Dan Jacobson"'s message of "Sun, 06 Aug 2017 08:33:30 +0800")
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> You know those programs that ask you "(yes or no)?"
> Well wouldn't it be great if one could hit y<TAB> and then it would
> become "yes" etc.
>
> Ah, yes-or-no-p is a built-in function in ‘C source code’.
IMO, Emacs prefers `yes-or-no-p' for dangerous actions, and it
uses `y-or-n-p' for safe ones. I think this is good, to protect
beginners from lost important data; offering TAB completion would
somehow contradict this idiom.
Some experts have in their Emacs init file:
(fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)
;; So that they will be prompted with (y or n).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-06 6:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-06 0:33 bug#27979: tab completion for "(yes or no)?" 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2017-08-06 6:59 ` Tino Calancha [this message]
2017-08-06 15:07 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-06 15:20 ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-06 15:46 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-06 16:05 ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-06 16:48 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-06 20:34 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-06 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-06 12:52 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2017-08-06 13:02 ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-06 13:59 ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-06 16:15 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2017-08-06 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-06 16:58 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
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