From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2015 22:47:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86h9nb18gy.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87bndjwdxj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org
On Thu 03 Sep 2015, David Kastrup wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
>>> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 21:25:19 +0300
>>>
>>> > FWIW, I have (setq confirm-kill-emacs #'yes-or-no-p) in my init.el.
>>> > I just can't count the times I pressed C-x C-c by mistake.
>>>
>>> It's a personal choice.
>>
>> Personal choices are solved by user options, not by defaliases and
>> suchlikes.
>
> The Emacs manual starts with "Emacs is the extensible, customizable,
> self-documenting real-time display editor." The very first attribute
> mentioned here is "extensible". So who are we to tell users they should
> not use Emacs' programming facilities for making it do what they want?
You are both right.
Extensibility has allowed users to tailor how emacs behaves, given that
no user option exists to configure this behaviour. The fact that several
people have done so indicates that a user option is needed.
AndyM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-03 21:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-03 16:31 yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master? Kaushal Modi
2015-09-03 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 17:22 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-09-03 17:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 17:43 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-09-03 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 17:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 18:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:18 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-09-03 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:23 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-03 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:43 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-09-03 18:45 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 9:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 9:14 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 9:16 ` Bastien
2015-09-04 9:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-04 10:32 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-04 11:03 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 11:52 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 12:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 12:39 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-05 5:02 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-09-04 12:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 12:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-04 12:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 13:34 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-04 17:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 18:14 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 18:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 18:39 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 18:52 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 18:53 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 19:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 19:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 20:00 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 20:04 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-05 7:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-05 7:20 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 19:56 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 18:36 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-04 17:31 ` Chad Brown
2015-09-04 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 12:59 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 14:42 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-04 13:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-04 13:49 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:27 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 18:18 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-03 18:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 18:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:33 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-03 21:47 ` Andy Moreton [this message]
2015-09-04 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 6:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-04 7:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 9:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-05 4:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-09-03 19:26 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-03 17:47 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 12:29 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-09-04 12:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 22:31 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2015-09-03 23:54 ` Kaushal Modi
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