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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
Cc: 27979@debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni@jidanni.org
Subject: bug#27979: tab completion for "(yes or no)?"
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2017 19:49:55 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vam0tzd8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r2wp6v1m.fsf@calancha-pc> (message from Tino Calancha on Sun,  06 Aug 2017 15:59:33 +0900)

> From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2017 15:59:33 +0900
> Cc: 27979@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> IMO, Emacs prefers `yes-or-no-p' for dangerous actions, and it
> uses `y-or-n-p' for safe ones.  I think this is good, to protect
> beginners from lost important data; offering TAB completion would
> somehow contradict this idiom.

Agreed.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-08-06 16:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-06  0:33 bug#27979: tab completion for "(yes or no)?" 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2017-08-06  6:59 ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-06 15:07   ` Drew Adams
2017-08-06 15:20     ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-06 15:46       ` Drew Adams
2017-08-06 16:05         ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-06 16:48           ` Drew Adams
2017-08-06 20:34             ` Drew Adams
2017-08-06 16:49   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-08-06 12:52 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2017-08-06 13:02   ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-06 13:59     ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-06 16:15 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2017-08-06 17:08   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-06 16:58 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson

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