Re: A more demanding yes-or-no and a wordlists package

[Yuval Langer <yuval.langer@gmail.com>]

On September 28, 2023 9:11:29 PM UTC, Yuval Langer <yuval.langer@gmail.com> wrote:
>I thought, hey, what about aliasing yes-or-no with something even more
>demanding to avoid confirming stuff accidentally?

I now have three yes-or-no-p replacements.

One, super-duper-yes-or-no-yes-or-no-words-p, takes a prompt string and displays the prompt and two random non-identical sequences of words in the minibuffer.  One for affirmative, the other for negative.  The user must enter one of them for the function to return.

Running:

(super-duper-yes-or-no-yes-or-no-words-p "Do some action? ")

Displays:

Do some action? (Enter "aaaaa foo" for yes, "aaaaa aaaaa" for no)

The user then must enter exactly, without the doube quotes, "aaaaa foo" for yes and "aaaaa aaaaa" for no.

The second, super-duper-yes-or-no-yes-or-no-toggle-case-p, takes a prompt string, and displays the prompt and two phrases with a small number of the letters' case flipped.  The use must enter the letters in sequence as they appear in the phrases for the function to return.

Running:

(super-duper-yes-or-no-yes-or-no-toggle-case-p "Do some
action? ")

Displays:

Do some action? (If you Understand what you're Doing, enter the
capitalIzed letters here for "yEs")
(If you understaNd what you're doiNg, enter the capitaLized letters
here for "no"):

Enter "IUDIE" for yes and "INNL" for no.

The third, sd-yes-or-no-arithmetic-problem-p, the same as the above, but with simple arithmetic problems:

Running:

(super-duper-yes-or-no-yes-or-no-arithmetic-problem-p "Do some
action? ")

Displays:

Do some action? Please answer (+ (* 8 0) (* 1 0)) for "yes" and (+
(* 8 2) (* 2 1)) for "no":

Enter "9" for yes and "18" for no.

There are several customizable variables one can set.  The docstrings explain them.

The only repository online currently is on <https://codeberg.org/yuvallangerontheroad/super-duper-yes-or-no> but I am not sure if I should move it to Source Hut or not.

Anyway, I would appreciate advice, any advice!

Thank you,
Yuval Langer.