From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master? Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 09:32:43 +0300 Message-ID: <83613qae44.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83k2s7a247.fsf@gnu.org> <55E88336.5060703@yandex.ru> <83h9nb9z5l.fsf@gnu.org> <55E8879B.9050107@yandex.ru> <87lhcnqsc6.fsf@mbork.pl> <55E8908F.5000201@yandex.ru> <838u8n9x2c.fsf@gnu.org> <87bndjwdxj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441348390 11942 80.91.229.3 (4 Sep 2015 06:33:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 06:33:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kaushal.modi@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, dgutov@yandex.ru To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 04 08:33:00 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXkYV-0004Ag-G0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 08:32:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56217 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXkYV-0000Rj-Bm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 02:32:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40630) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXkYH-0000R3-VG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 02:32:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXkYH-0003cw-4Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 02:32:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:57411) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXkYD-0003Yo-Bi; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 02:32:41 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NU5006003BN8L00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 09:32:40 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NU5006DP3IF9G00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 09:32:40 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87bndjwdxj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:189569 Archived-At: > From: David Kastrup > Cc: Dmitry Gutov , emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, kaushal.modi@gmail.com > Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2015 20:33:28 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> From: Dmitry Gutov > >> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 21:25:19 +0300 > >> > >> > FWIW, I have (setq confirm-kill-emacs #'yes-or-no-p) in my init.el. > >> > I just can't count the times I pressed C-x C-c by mistake. > >> > >> It's a personal choice. > > > > Personal choices are solved by user options, not by defaliases and > > suchlikes. > > The Emacs manual starts with "Emacs is the extensible, customizable, > self-documenting real-time display editor." The very first attribute > mentioned here is "extensible". So who are we to tell users they should > not use Emacs' programming facilities for making it do what they want? I'm not telling them that. I'm suggesting to tell them that Emacs maintenance is not going to promise such tricks, bsed on accidental identity of 2 separate APIs, will always work. They should expect it to break without notice.