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 17:18:57 +0100 Message-ID: <45E459F1.7060903@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 1172593171 25523 80.91.229.12 (27 Feb 2007 16:19:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:19:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 27 17:19:25 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 1HM52r-0004ke-Id for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:19:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HM52q-0000ww-U2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:19:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HM52a-0000t5-Ql for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:19:00 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HM52Z-0000qy-AX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:19:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HM52Z-0000qf-0u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:18:59 -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 1HM52Y-0004R7-J6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:18:58 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:60003 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HM52V-0002yx-5t; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:18:56 +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 000718-0, 2007-02-27), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HM52V-0002yx-5t. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1HM52V-0002yx-5t 96aafe0da1f0096385ff6bd802098eb7 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:66924 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: >>> 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. > > Those are blocking questions. You can't do anything but answer them. Sooner > or later, you will notice the question. Yes, as soon as you happen to type "y" or "n" you answer the questions. And rather later than sooner you will notice that you did. ;-) I think the prompt colors should be the same. That will be the base for making them more noticeable. Then as I said before I want them to be noticeable. The user should know that there Emacs is expecting some special input and that Emacs will do something special with that input.