From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Josh Howard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Migrating from Jove - help? Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:17:12 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <873c4leufb.fsf@dazed.zeppelin.net> References: <200406231710.54939.emacs@oddiofile.com> <40DA00D8.3080704@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088032667 25350 80.91.224.253 (23 Jun 2004 23:17:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 23:17:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 24 01:17:41 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BdGzt-000704-00 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 01:17:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BdH1G-000581-LF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 19:19:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BdH17-00056k-PH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 19:18:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BdH15-00055h-Sn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 19:18:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BdH15-00055b-Kt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 19:18:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.92.250.118] (helo=dazed.zeppelin.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BdGzS-0001l9-Aa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 19:17:14 -0400 Original-Received: by dazed.zeppelin.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 81DACA9CB; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:17:12 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <40DA00D8.3080704@yahoo.com> (Kevin Rodgers's message of "Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:14:48 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (berkeley-unix) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19037 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19037 Kevin Rodgers writes: > Alan Ezust wrote: > > And then, if I say N, emacs asks me ANOTHER > > question, and it won't accept a simple y/n, so I have to type > > "yes" > > > > Can I have it skip that first question, and also permit me a single letter > > response for the second? > > No and no. But you can shoot yourself in the foot like this: Isn't the answer to the second question yes? (fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p) in your ~/.emacs ought to let you just answer with a y instead of a yes or no. -- Josh Howard