From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Confused by y-or-n-p Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 10:50:25 +0200 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <87k0sf7vhq.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <834kkcr1eo.fsf@gnu.org> <87wnx7j5is.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83im8qnyca.fsf@gnu.org> <83bleinmse.fsf@gnu.org> <56435592-d2d0-5fb6-977f-01e1931da835@gmx.at> <87k0t38g1z.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83czyvkts6.fsf@gnu.org> <87bleetirr.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87y2hhri3n.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83pn2tkfg8.fsf@gnu.org> <871rf7ippu.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83a6trg6mc.fsf@gnu.org> <87im8f951f.fsf@gnus.org> <87o8i4k2aj.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17061"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, larsi@gnus.org, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 14 10:41:00 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kzz7j-0004EV-Q9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2021 10:40:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41668 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzz7i-0007Sr-TE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2021 04:40:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51810) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzz65-000679-NN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2021 04:39:18 -0500 Original-Received: from relay2-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.194]:37103) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzz63-0001Lt-MF; Thu, 14 Jan 2021 04:39:17 -0500 X-Originating-IP: 91.129.98.64 Original-Received: from mail.gandi.net (m91-129-98-64.cust.tele2.ee [91.129.98.64]) (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by relay2-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C0DDA40018; Thu, 14 Jan 2021 09:39:10 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:03:54 -0500") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.70.183.194; envelope-from=juri@linkov.net; helo=relay2-d.mail.gandi.net X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:263047 Archived-At: > > Its name should be consistent with another variable > > use-short-answers that could be used to replace > > yes-or-no-p with y-or-n-p. These two should have names > > that preclude confusion between their meanings. > > > Also use-short-answers could be used by the existing variable > > read-answer-short. > > That might be good, but needs working out the details. Maybe also there is a need to add a separate option that turns short y-or-n-p queries to long yes-or-no-p questions? So when it's non-nil and y-or-n-p is called, it will redirect the prompt to yes-or-no-p to ask a long yes-or-no question.