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: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 19:09:41 +0200 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <87wnx1ri3e.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <834kkcr1eo.fsf@gnu.org> <43b24209-fa65-0e26-7cbd-f99175a7ffd8@gmx.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-=-=" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13935"; 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: Eli Zaretskii , Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 28 18:23:22 2020 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 1ktwEs-0003W3-3q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2020 18:23:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50756 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktwEr-0005YD-6r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2020 12:23:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48514) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktwDa-0004e2-JP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2020 12:22:02 -0500 Original-Received: from relay1-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.193]:39547) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktwDY-00086G-Fl; Mon, 28 Dec 2020 12:22:02 -0500 X-Originating-IP: 91.129.99.98 Original-Received: from mail.gandi.net (m91-129-99-98.cust.tele2.ee [91.129.99.98]) (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by relay1-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4FE62240003; Mon, 28 Dec 2020 17:21:54 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <43b24209-fa65-0e26-7cbd-f99175a7ffd8@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Thu, 24 Dec 2020 16:38:28 +0100") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.70.183.193; envelope-from=juri@linkov.net; helo=relay1-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:262018 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain > And while we're there we could also try to relieve some of our .emacs > files (mine included) of those > > (defalias 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p) > > by providing an option that accomplishes the necessary mapping. Maybe something like this: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/x-diff Content-Disposition: inline; filename=use-short-answers.patch diff --git a/lisp/cus-start.el b/lisp/cus-start.el index 2e8872341f..4376f9835e 100644 --- a/lisp/cus-start.el +++ b/lisp/cus-start.el @@ -302,6 +302,7 @@ minibuffer-prompt-properties--setter ;; fns.c (use-dialog-box menu boolean "21.1") (use-file-dialog menu boolean "22.1") + (use-short-answers menu boolean "28.1") (focus-follows-mouse frames (choice (const :tag "Off (nil)" :value nil) diff --git a/src/fns.c b/src/fns.c index 2de1d26dd3..128bd7af55 100644 --- a/src/fns.c +++ b/src/fns.c @@ -2873,6 +2873,11 @@ DEFUN ("yes-or-no-p", Fyes_or_no_p, Syes_or_no_p, 1, 1, 0, return obj; } + if (use_short_answers) + { + return call1 (intern ("y-or-n-p"), prompt); + } + AUTO_STRING (yes_or_no, "(yes or no) "); prompt = CALLN (Fconcat, prompt, yes_or_no); @@ -5791,6 +5796,10 @@ syms_of_fns (void) this variable. */); use_file_dialog = true; + DEFVAR_BOOL ("use-short-answers", use_short_answers, + doc: /* Non-nil means `yes-or-no-p' uses shorter answers "y" or "n". */); + use_short_answers = false; + defsubr (&Sidentity); defsubr (&Srandom); defsubr (&Slength); --=-=-=--