From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master? Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2015 21:02:32 +0300 Message-ID: <83fv2v9y9z.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83k2s7a247.fsf@gnu.org> <55E88336.5060703@yandex.ru> <83h9nb9z5l.fsf@gnu.org> <55E8879B.9050107@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441303426 12816 80.91.229.3 (3 Sep 2015 18:03:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 18:03:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kaushal.modi@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 03 20:03:38 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXYrJ-0006hb-Na for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2015 20:03:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50826 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXYrE-00051F-7Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2015 14:03:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58186) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXYqz-000516-2P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2015 14:03:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXYqv-000067-RM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2015 14:03:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:44073) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXYqv-00005f-Jr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2015 14:03:13 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NU4001004RYVK00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2015 21:02:30 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NU4001734S5OE80@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Thu, 03 Sep 2015 21:02:30 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <55E8879B.9050107@yandex.ru> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:189537 Archived-At: > Cc: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, > kaushal.modi@gmail.com > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 20:47:07 +0300 > > On 09/03/2015 08:43 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > >> (defalias 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p) > > > > Why? > > Because it saves keypresses. There's really no need to type "yes" > fully to indicate agreement. Then we should not use yes-or-no-p there, but y-or-n-p. > > Just don't. > > It's been working fine for years. Sheer luck.