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 12:02:42 +0300 Message-ID: <83zj128slp.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> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441357395 20989 80.91.229.3 (4 Sep 2015 09:03:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 09:03:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kaushal.modi@gmail.com, dgutov@yandex.ru, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 04 11:03:05 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 1ZXmtk-0005VZ-14 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 11:03:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57218 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXmtj-00073I-Lm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 05:03:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48287) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXmtQ-000711-2S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 05:02:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXmtM-0006wO-Rt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 05:02:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:42709) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXmtM-0006vV-KG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 05:02:40 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NU500300A03YP00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 12:02:38 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NU50030EAGEVY80@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 12:02:38 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 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:189572 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 19:43:25 +0100 > From: Artur Malabarba > Cc: emacs-devel , Brief Busters , > Stefan Monnier , > Drew Adams , Kaushal Modi > > >> 2. User preferences vary. Some users never want to respond to > >> a `yes-or-no-p' prompt. That's their choice. It should be easy > >> for them to express their choice and have Emacs respect it. > > > > But if (1) is not enough, then I think we should fix the rest > > of the use cases via a user option that redirects yes-or-no-p to > > y-or-n-p. Requesting us to drag on with supporting such defaliases is > > an unjustified maintenance burden. > > I agree with any solution that makes it possible. Be it user option or whatnot. Does anyone see a reason why we even have 2 functions, instead of just one that can either accept a single character or a string? Let alone why yes-or-no-p is implemented in C, while y-or-n-p in Lisp? 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?