From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Confused by y-or-n-p Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:41:40 -0500 Message-ID: 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> <87k0sf7vhq.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12323"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, larsi@gnus.org, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 15 06:42:35 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 1l0HsZ-00033a-DQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2021 06:42:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51610 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l0HsY-0006lX-GE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:42:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39278) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l0Hro-0006MK-6D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:41:48 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39760) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l0Hrm-0003Ap-Rj; Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:41:46 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l0Hrg-0003h8-LP; Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:41:44 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87k0sf7vhq.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Thu, 14 Jan 2021 10:50:25 +0200) 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:263064 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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? It is not something I personally want, but I am not arguing against it. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)