From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, kaushal.modi@gmail.com
Subject: Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2015 21:27:50 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a8t39x3t.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57355235-9af7-49fb-81b5-93182cfc9d49@default>
> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 11:23:17 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
> Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
>
> FWIW, I agree with both Eli and those who want the regression fixed.
>
> 1. Each place such a prompting function is used, we should pick
> the right function. If `yes-or-no-p' is not right for a given
> occurrence, and `y-or-n-p' is right, then let's fix that.
>
> 2. User preferences vary. Some users never want to respond to
> a `yes-or-no-p' prompt. That's their choice. It should be easy
> for them to express their choice and have Emacs respect it.
I agree completely, and hope that just doing (1) correctly will be
enough. But if (1) is not enough, then I think we should fix the rest
of the use cases via a user option that redirects yes-or-no-p to
y-or-n-p. Requesting us to drag on with supporting such defaliases is
an unjustified maintenance burden.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-03 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-03 16:31 yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master? Kaushal Modi
2015-09-03 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 17:22 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-09-03 17:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 17:43 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-09-03 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 17:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 18:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:18 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-09-03 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:23 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-03 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-09-03 18:43 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-09-03 18:45 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 9:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 9:14 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 9:16 ` Bastien
2015-09-04 9:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-04 10:32 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-04 11:03 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 11:52 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 12:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 12:39 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-05 5:02 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-09-04 12:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 12:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-04 12:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 13:34 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-04 17:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 18:14 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 18:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 18:39 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 18:52 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 18:53 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 19:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 19:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 20:00 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 20:04 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-05 7:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-05 7:20 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 19:56 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 18:36 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-04 17:31 ` Chad Brown
2015-09-04 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 12:59 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 14:42 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-04 13:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-04 13:49 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:27 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 18:18 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-03 18:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 18:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:33 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-03 21:47 ` Andy Moreton
2015-09-04 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 6:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-04 7:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 9:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-05 4:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-09-03 19:26 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-03 17:47 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 12:29 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-09-04 12:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 22:31 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2015-09-03 23:02 ` bug#21408: 25.0.50; yes-or-no-p prompt doesn't appear Katsumi Yamaoka
2015-09-03 23:53 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 0:23 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2015-09-03 23:54 ` yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master? Kaushal Modi
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