From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7291: 24.0.50; `non-essential' is incomprehensible Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:52:23 +0200 Message-ID: <83zktw5g0o.fsf@gnu.org> References: <9499566E643B466092A98013C6826011@us.oracle.com> <3457CB74869B424BB0DB5A41C034AED7@us.oracle.com> <7908A4E9737248F79A9D74B584DAEAC9@us.oracle.com> <837hh07syw.fsf@gnu.org> <82hbg4vc32.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1288422814 18677 80.91.229.12 (30 Oct 2010 07:13:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:13:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Andy Moreton Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 30 09:13:32 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PC5d6-0007OC-Cf for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sat, 30 Oct 2010 02:52:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PC5IZ-00025o-1s for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 02:52:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:54277) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PC5IY-00025e-RT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 02:52:19 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LB300E00C2TI200@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:52:17 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.229.202]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LB300ES6CF4CK60@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:52:17 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <82hbg4vc32.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 02:49:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:41265 Archived-At: > From: Andy Moreton > Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:00:33 +0100 > Cc: > > On Fri 29 Oct 2010, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > >> From: Stefan Monnier > >> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:03:03 -0400 > >> Cc: 7291@debbugs.gnu.org > >> > >> > The variable is badly named. It should be using a positive form, like > >> > allow-whatever. > >> > >> `allow-whatever' does strike me as being any better. > >> Any other suggestion? > > > > suppress-non-essential-prompts? > > allow-user-interaction ? "User interaction" is too general, IMO. Almost as general as the original name, which is one of the reasons for this bug report.