From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 19368@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19368: 25.0.50; NSM prompt is not self-explanatory enough
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 12:50:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zjahz0fl.fsf@building.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv7fxtzw49.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 14 Dec 2014 17:48:27 -0500")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>> Yeah. But shouldn't we have a general multiple-choice library function
>>> for these (sort of) extended y-or-n-p functions?
>
> The closest is probably read-char-choice.
It's kinda close, but it doesn't tell the user what the expansions to
the choices are, which I think is kinda useful. Gnus has some
multiple-choice prompts that are longer than can be displayed in the
echo buffer nicely, and it would be nice if it auto-shortened the help
texts...
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2014-12-13 14:39 ` bug#19368: 25.0.50; NSM prompt is not self-explanatory enough Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-14 4:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-14 11:37 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-02-05 3:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-14 8:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-14 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-14 22:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-21 11:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2016-02-04 7:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-04 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-05 3:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-05 3:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-05 7:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-05 7:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-05 9:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-06 3:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-06-02 14:31 ` Archived problem report bug#19368 (bug#19368: 25.0.50; NSM prompt is not self-explanatory enough) GNU bug Tracking System
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