From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: kaushal.modi@gmail.com, bruce.connor.am@gmail.com,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru,
drew.adams@oracle.com
Subject: Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 18:36:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150904183646.GD2991@acm.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83lhcm83vl.fsf@gnu.org>
Hello, Eli.
On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 08:56:46PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 13:34:39 +0000
> > Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>, kaushal.modi@gmail.com,
> > bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
> > dgutov@yandex.ru, drew.adams@oracle.com
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
[ .... ]
> > If the defcustom has three values "Always-y-or-n", "Always-yes-or-no",
> > "depends-on-the-particular-invocation", I'm fine. With just the first
> > two alternatives, I wouldn't like it.
> The intent is to provide a predicate defcustom that allows to cause
> yes-or-no-p behave like y-or-n-p. y-or-n-p will always behave as it
> does, and I didn't intend to change that, as I don't see the use case
> for that.
> If you still want the 3rd alternative, please describe the use cases
> that would need it.
No, I don't. I thought somebody else did.
There's been a fair amount of misunderstanding in this thread. Sorry
for adding to it.
> > I'm wondering whether coalescing these two function is more trouble than
> > it's worth.
> Please don't worry about the implementation aspects. It's not rocket
> science in any case.
OK. Have a good weekend!
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-04 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-03 16:31 yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master? Kaushal Modi
2015-09-03 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 17:22 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-09-03 17:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 17:43 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-09-03 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 17:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 18:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:18 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-09-03 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:23 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-03 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:43 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-09-03 18:45 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 9:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 9:14 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 9:16 ` Bastien
2015-09-04 9:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-04 10:32 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-04 11:03 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 11:52 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 12:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 12:39 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-05 5:02 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-09-04 12:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 12:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-04 12:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 13:34 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-04 17:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 18:14 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 18:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 18:39 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 18:52 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 18:53 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 19:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 19:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 20:00 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 20:04 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-05 7:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-05 7:20 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 19:56 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 18:36 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2015-09-04 17:31 ` Chad Brown
2015-09-04 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 12:59 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 14:42 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-04 13:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-04 13:49 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:27 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 18:18 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-03 18:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 18:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:33 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-03 21:47 ` Andy Moreton
2015-09-04 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 6:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-04 7:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 9:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-05 4:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-09-03 19:26 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-03 17:47 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 12:29 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-09-04 12:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 22:31 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2015-09-03 23:02 ` bug#21408: 25.0.50; yes-or-no-p prompt doesn't appear Katsumi Yamaoka
2015-09-03 23:53 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 0:23 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2015-09-03 23:54 ` yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master? Kaushal Modi
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