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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
Cc: 27940@debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni@jidanni.org
Subject: bug#27940: Recursively delete dir34? (yes, no, all, quit)
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 08:51:42 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ad9397b-7771-4914-85a3-9dd0e998fa0c@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<83tw1nwfhp.fsf@gnu.org>>

> > > Shouldn't the valid-answers be "yes" and "no", not "y" and "n", for
> > > backward compatibility?
> > Yes, they should.

> > > Maybe the "!" and "q" parts should be explained?  Or maybe just use
> > > "yes", "no", "all", and "quite", which are self-explanatory?
> > Look the updated patch; it's a mix:
> > 1. uses 'yes', 'no'
> > 2. '!', 'q', 'help'
> >   This is similar like `query-replace' does (there is used '!', 'q', and
> >   '?').  With 'help', a Help buffer is shown with a help message.

I haven't been following this thread, so apologies if I misunderstand.

Is it a good idea to mix `yes-or-no-p'-style (minibuffer) input,
such as `yes' and `no', with `read-char'-style input, such as `!'
and `q'?  I don't think so, a priori.  Especially for `!', which
has worse repercussions in case of a mistake than does `y'.  No?





  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-08-04 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-03 23:26 bug#27940: Recursively delete dir34? (yes, no, all, quit) 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2017-08-04  8:25 ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-04  8:31   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-04  9:29     ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-04  9:37       ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-04 12:46       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-04 14:33         ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-04 14:54           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-06  4:52             ` Tino Calancha
     [not found]               ` <87k22e9obk.fsf@ctlt579.codethink.co.uk>
2017-08-09  5:54                 ` Tino Calancha
2017-10-15 14:17                   ` Noam Postavsky
2017-10-16  5:20                     ` Tino Calancha
2017-10-16 10:36                       ` Noam Postavsky
2017-10-16 10:43                         ` Tino Calancha
2017-10-17 12:40                           ` Noam Postavsky
     [not found]         ` <<871sorz9kg.fsf@calancha-pc>
     [not found]           ` <<83tw1nwfhp.fsf@gnu.org>
2017-08-04 15:51             ` Drew Adams [this message]
2017-08-04 16:18               ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-04 16:22                 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-04 16:34                   ` Tino Calancha
     [not found] <<87o9rwxmfz.fsf@jidanni.org>

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