From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 20:01:23 +0200 Message-ID: <838td446mk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87bmi1cryh.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87o9m1nlpl.fsf@gmail.com> <83po6g4cky.fsf@gnu.org> <87k1woti3m.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515693620 32087 195.159.176.226 (11 Jan 2018 18:00:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 18:00:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 30073@debbugs.gnu.org, juri@linkov.net To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 11 19:00:16 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eZh9A-0007oJ-1A for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 19:00:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59507 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZhB9-0000Ng-Ph for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:02:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36393) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZhAz-0000MA-7r for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:02:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZhAv-0007fM-Vt for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:02:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:44545) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZhAv-0007fG-SM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:02:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eZhAv-0004Kv-Ig for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:02:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 18:02:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 30073 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 30073-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B30073.151569369816631 (code B ref 30073); Thu, 11 Jan 2018 18:02:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 30073) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Jan 2018 18:01:38 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52442 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eZhAY-0004KB-CW for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:01:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45219) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eZhAV-0004Jy-Bk for 30073@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:01:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZhAM-0007Tk-UL for 30073@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:01:30 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51628) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZhAM-0007Te-Qc; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:01:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3192 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eZhAM-0005Lb-Aa; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:01:26 -0500 In-reply-to: <87k1woti3m.fsf@gmail.com> (contovob@tcd.ie) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:142045 Archived-At: > From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , <30073@debbugs.gnu.org> > Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 17:34:21 +0000 > > > Indeed, this horse has been beaten to death already. The current > > solution is for you to set dired-deletion-confirmer to y-or-n-p. > > Admittedly, that's not a very user-friendly customization method, but > > then neither is fset. > > FWIW, I find > > (advice-add 'yes-or-no-p :override #'y-or-n-p) > > to be a slightly user-friendlier alternative to > > (fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p) > > as the former is at least reported by the help system. IMO, none of that is user-friendly as customization goes. These are semi-kludgey hacks, which are okay for personal use, but not as advertised customization means. YMMV, of course.