From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Tino Calancha" <tino.calancha@gmail.com>,
"積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 27979@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27979: tab completion for "(yes or no)?"
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2017 08:07:33 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c55dc0ad-7296-4354-b369-fce5e0ef8f94@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r2wp6v1m.fsf@calancha-pc>
> 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.
+1
> 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).
More newbies than experts, methinks. ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-06 15:07 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
2017-08-06 15:07 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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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