From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 62146@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#62146: 26.3; Allow users to get help on y/n prompt
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2023 19:34:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r0ttub4i.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR10MB54887601160C2B2FF517D2FBF3B89@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (message from Drew Adams on Sun, 12 Mar 2023 16:18:52 +0000)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2023 16:18:52 +0000
>
> See https://emacs.stackexchange.com/q/76235.
>
> Please consider allowing a help character, such as `?' or `C-h', to give
> users more info about y/n prompting - info that might help with this
> user's confusion (maybe some info such as that offered by NickD's
> answer).
The help info is right above the prompt.
And I don't really understand what that user wanted to do, and why he
tried doing that when prompted for a y/n response.
> Consider, in particular, the context of hitting a key for a disabled
> command (the OP's context), and seeing the Help text for dealing with
> disabled commands, including a link that is impossible to access while
> in the y/n read.
To cancel type 'n' -- this text is right in the face of the user.
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2023-03-12 16:18 bug#62146: 26.3; Allow users to get help on y/n prompt Drew Adams
2023-03-12 17:34 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-03-12 18:18 ` Drew Adams
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