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: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 15:33:58 +0300 Message-ID: <83twra8itl.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83k2s7a247.fsf@gnu.org> <55E88336.5060703@yandex.ru> <83h9nb9z5l.fsf@gnu.org> <55E8879B.9050107@yandex.ru> <83fv2v9y9z.fsf@gnu.org> <57355235-9af7-49fb-81b5-93182cfc9d49@default> <83a8t39x3t.fsf@gnu.org> <83zj128slp.fsf@gnu.org> <87twrav95m.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441370070 27703 80.91.229.3 (4 Sep 2015 12:34:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 12:34:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kaushal.modi@gmail.com, bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru, drew.adams@oracle.com To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 04 14:34:17 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 1ZXqC4-0006sb-UB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 14:34:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58706 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXqC4-0005cT-Bc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 08:34:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44738) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXqBy-0005aH-J0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 08:34:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXqBs-0005LZ-7m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 08:34:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout28.012.net.il ([80.179.55.184]:38701) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXqBn-0005Kz-KX; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 08:33:55 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout28.012.net.il by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NU500200K1SK800@mtaout28.012.net.il>; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 15:33:43 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NU500OGGK87MS30@mtaout28.012.net.il>; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 15:33:43 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87twrav95m.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.184 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:189583 Archived-At: > From: David Kastrup > Cc: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, kaushal.modi@gmail.com, dgutov@yandex.ru, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 11:14:13 +0200 > > > Any objections to removing yes-or-no-p (with a defalias for backward > > compatibility, of course) and making y-or-n-p serve both duties, > > controlled by some defcustom? > > You mean, controlled by an optional argument? With some defcustom for > specifying the interpretation of the optional argument? Yes, somethng like that. But it's possible even without the optional argument. > Because otherwise you'll have a hard time retaining the current default > behavior for emacs -Q. Well, we could have one function bind the defcustom and then call the other one. Then we won't even need a defalias for backward compatibility.