From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [lennart.borgman@gmail.com: Re: map-y-or-n does not use minibuffer-prompt face] Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:51:07 +0100 Message-ID: <45E3F0FB.8060702@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172566300 22227 80.91.229.12 (27 Feb 2007 08:51:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:51:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 27 09:51:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HLy3a-0003gP-AV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:51:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HLy3Z-0004t2-Qb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:51:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HLy3O-0004sw-T0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:51:22 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HLy3L-0004sj-JX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:51:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HLy3L-0004sd-CA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:51:19 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HLy3I-0007yb-OO; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:51:17 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:60641 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HLy3G-0007L5-3e; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:51:15 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061207 Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000717-1, 2007-02-26), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HLy3G-0007L5-3e. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1HLy3G-0007L5-3e 8470e1b1f73bab011ceed40895b492e4 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:66911 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > However, now I have second thoughts about this for map-y-or-n. The > main purpose of this face is to more clearly separate the prompt from > the input that follows it. That purpose does not apply to y-or-n-p, > or to map-y-or-n. However, to the extent that this face also helps > show the user that Emacs is asking some sort of question, it is useful > to use the face for other kinds of questions. > > So, should we use it for y-or-n-p and map-y-or-n and query-replace, > or not? I think so because there is no other way to show that Emacs is asking some sort of question.