From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 46594@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 22:27:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8335xltdmi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h7m1gsao.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Wed, 24 Feb 2021 21:49:19 +0200)
> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, larsi@gnus.org, 46594@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 21:49:19 +0200
>
> >> +** New variable 'use-short-answers' to use 'y-or-n-p' instead of 'yes-or-no-p'.
> >> +This relieves of the need to define an alias that maps one to another
> >> +in the init file.
> >
> > is this only about y-or-n-p vs yes-or-no-p? Or do we expect to use
> > this variable for other answers? In the former case, perhaps the name
> > of the variable should include "yes-or-no" somewhere, since
> > "use-short-answers" sounds too general to hint on its use, IMO.
>
> This is not only about about y-or-n-p/yes-or-no-p. It also affects
> the function 'read-answer' and its option 'read-answer-short'.
Then why neither NEWS nor the doc string mention those other APIs?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-24 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-17 18:59 bug#46594: Use short answers Juri Linkov
2021-02-22 15:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-22 17:13 ` bug#46594: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-24 18:44 ` Juri Linkov
2021-02-24 19:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-24 19:49 ` Juri Linkov
2021-02-24 20:27 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-02-24 20:50 ` Juri Linkov
2021-02-25 15:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-25 18:45 ` Juri Linkov
2021-02-24 23:55 ` Drew Adams
2021-02-25 9:20 ` Juri Linkov
2021-02-25 16:40 ` Drew Adams
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