Re: Arrow Keys?

["B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>]

Andreas Röhler wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> From: Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com>
>>> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
>>> Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 15:55:38 -0700 (PDT)
>>>
>>> Isn't the purpose of Emacs to eliminate arguments over keybindings?
>>> Every Emacs user can customise their bindings to their own personal
>>> preferences.
>>>     
>> That's the idea, yes.  But some people tend to argue a lot about the
>> default settings, for reasons that totally evade me in the context of
>> Emacs, whose customization features and extensibility are really
>> limitless.
>>
>>
>>
>>   
> 
> You are right. Nonetheless, being a beginner, it's just that kind of
> question
> to pose IMHO.
> 
> Below a tiny issue I enjoy from the unlimited, it saves the (rather
> laborious) keystrokes
> typing in "yes" and "return" afterwards:
> 
> (global-set-key [(super a)] '[?y ?e ?s return])
> 
> Andreas

The effect can also be accomplished with

(fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)
; makes yes-or-no-p an alias for y-or-n-p

which short-circuits the safety of having to type out y e s [ret] but I 
guess it's no more dangerous than your method. A single y or space 
without RET will answer the query in the affirmative.

Ed