From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
Cc: 27940@debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni@jidanni.org
Subject: bug#27940: Recursively delete dir34? (yes, no, all, quit)
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 17:54:10 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tw1nwfhp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871sorz9kg.fsf@calancha-pc> (message from Tino Calancha on Fri, 04 Aug 2017 23:33:51 +0900)
> From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
> Cc: 27940@debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni@jidanni.org
> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 23:33:51 +0900
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>
> > Shouldn't the valid-answers be "yes" and "no", not "y" and "n", for
> > backward compatibility?
> Yes, they should.
> >
> >> + (completing-read (format "Recursively %s %s? [y, n, !, q] "
> >
> > Maybe the "!" and "q" parts should be explained? Or maybe just use
> > "yes", "no", "all", and "quite", which are self-explanatory?
> Look the updated patch; it's a mix:
> 1. uses 'yes', 'no'
> 2. '!', 'q', 'help'
> This is similar like `query-replace' does (there is used '!', 'q', and
> '?'). With 'help', a Help buffer is shown with a help message.
>
> >
> > This warrants a NEWS entry, I think. I also wonder whether we should
> > describe this in the user manual, under "Dired Deletion".
> I did.
Thanks, LGTM.
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-03 23:26 bug#27940: Recursively delete dir34? (yes, no, all, quit) 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2017-08-04 8:25 ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-04 8:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-04 9:29 ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-04 9:37 ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-04 12:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-04 14:33 ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-04 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-08-06 4:52 ` Tino Calancha
[not found] ` <87k22e9obk.fsf@ctlt579.codethink.co.uk>
2017-08-09 5:54 ` Tino Calancha
2017-10-15 14:17 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-10-16 5:20 ` Tino Calancha
2017-10-16 10:36 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-10-16 10:43 ` Tino Calancha
2017-10-17 12:40 ` Noam Postavsky
[not found] ` <<871sorz9kg.fsf@calancha-pc>
[not found] ` <<83tw1nwfhp.fsf@gnu.org>
2017-08-04 15:51 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-04 16:18 ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-04 16:22 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-04 16:34 ` Tino Calancha
[not found] <<87o9rwxmfz.fsf@jidanni.org>
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