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 21:28:34 +0300 Message-ID: <83k2s682el.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83fv2v9y9z.fsf@gnu.org> <57355235-9af7-49fb-81b5-93182cfc9d49@default> <83a8t39x3t.fsf@gnu.org> <83zj128slp.fsf@gnu.org> <87k2s6o7qh.fsf@igel.home> <83wpw68j2n.fsf@gnu.org> <871teenysf.fsf@igel.home> <83r3me8ho3.fsf@gnu.org> <20150904133439.GB2991@acm.fritz.box> <83lhcm83vl.fsf@gnu.org> <87fv2ut5k4.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441391336 25799 80.91.229.3 (4 Sep 2015 18:28:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 18:28:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, kaushal.modi@gmail.com, acm@muc.de, drew.adams@oracle.com To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 04 20:28:45 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 1ZXvj7-0003h1-ER for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 20:28:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34220 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXvj7-0001DJ-50 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 14:28:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35752) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXvj3-0001D5-Io for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 14:28:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXvj2-0001hr-JH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 14:28:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:62906) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXvix-0001h5-BM; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 14:28:31 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NU500500ZT5AQ00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 21:28:30 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NU6005ON0NHA830@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 21:28:30 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87fv2ut5k4.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 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:189608 Archived-At: > From: David Kastrup > Cc: Alan Mackenzie , kaushal.modi@gmail.com, bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru, drew.adams@oracle.com > Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 20:14:51 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > The intent is to provide a predicate defcustom that allows to cause > > yes-or-no-p behave like y-or-n-p. y-or-n-p will always behave as it > > does, and I didn't intend to change that, as I don't see the use case > > for that. > > Reliable translation into selection boxes when feeding emacs -batch from > a script? y-or-n-p already does TRT in that case (no dialog boxes in -batch). > Predictable behavior when navigating Emacs by voice? I don't see the relevance, please elaborate. > Some people may prefer saying "yes" to saying "why". Likewise.