From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Artur Malabarba Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master? Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 19:43:25 +0100 Message-ID: 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: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441305824 24948 80.91.229.3 (3 Sep 2015 18:43:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 18:43:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel , Brief Busters , Stefan Monnier , Drew Adams , Kaushal Modi To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 03 20:43:42 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 1ZXZU6-0006UB-E2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2015 20:43:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51092 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXZU6-00012b-Cz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2015 14:43:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45765) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXZTt-00011h-7h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2015 14:43:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXZTs-000682-CV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2015 14:43:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-la0-x22d.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c03::22d]:36726) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXZTq-00066x-Sy; Thu, 03 Sep 2015 14:43:27 -0400 Original-Received: by lanb10 with SMTP id b10so34481277lan.3; Thu, 03 Sep 2015 11:43:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:reply-to:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=o9ujdEBkLmieyj3yothTt8RQ4ReO0ryPzW1w5iIAoHU=; b=PNcxXrt71mjosHv/I5G86kYuvw469x1meedM631C7+Qp2lyGQSEtRL4QvT1dRBTvcH 5A3UeOqKTdnIHUTfUqRnKHtrbHrg/ELCqciOkoU2K2wlO5tGiUDZJ603mB5SXGbFePHN V8+om0U9ri2hGUkVDJAt+MSnEnOCmUtJeItgDTRRvl0dFEf9/uBe49dTpAAGdGqNTgNh MHx6fzxt+4qteK7xquMJnmTF1SvWGEp9hxTeZA2v9msxUuK2I2n3YoyBaE0zn/oBGdv6 0g5dmvSWAKcsphbT/JylDvd7Anww6/QR58LaLST/kzQ6kssCy8C5Hu7CmmJrPs4QFQAM 1Gnw== X-Received: by 10.152.20.70 with SMTP id l6mr12448387lae.4.1441305805991; Thu, 03 Sep 2015 11:43:25 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.25.213.202 with HTTP; Thu, 3 Sep 2015 11:43:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83a8t39x3t.fsf@gnu.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: rsm3l2WEMxM5-BRgdB_IALoy42Y X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c03::22d 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:189549 Archived-At: >> 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.