From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: contovob@tcd.ie, 30073-done@debbugs.gnu.org, tino.calancha@gmail.com
Subject: bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 10:04:53 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42321f96-82d6-4aed-81e9-c793a668982f@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fu6y6g2u.fsf@mail.linkov.net>
> Done.
The function name is not good. `read-answer' suggests reading an answer
to any question. This is very far from that. This is (IIUC) only about
reading an answer to a yes/no question (typically a confirmation question).
`read-confirmation' would be much clearer, as any yes/no question can
pretty much be considered a question asking for confirmation.
(`read-yes-no' would be more exact, but for some (given history) it
would suggest reading the inputs `yes' and `no', and not just reading
anything that is interpreted as yes or no.)
Anyway, as I made clear, I'm not crazy about this fix.
If we want to generalize reading yes/no questions we should do so
in a better way, including providing an easy way for the possible
answers to be expressed in other languages than English.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-25 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-10 21:41 bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers Juri Linkov
2018-01-11 3:00 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-01-11 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-11 17:34 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-01-11 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-11 19:39 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-01-11 21:57 ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-11 21:54 ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-12 9:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-13 22:38 ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-14 11:01 ` Tino Calancha
2018-01-14 22:53 ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-15 5:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-15 23:02 ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-16 17:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-17 22:56 ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-18 21:11 ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-15 17:01 ` Drew Adams
2018-01-15 23:13 ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-16 0:48 ` Drew Adams
2018-01-17 22:03 ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-18 3:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-18 21:12 ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-21 21:46 ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-25 18:04 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2018-01-25 21:20 ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-25 21:48 ` Drew Adams
2018-01-26 7:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-27 21:20 ` Juri Linkov
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