From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [lennart.borgman@gmail.com: Re: map-y-or-n does not use minibuffer-prompt face]
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:11:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <858xejmy89.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EIENLHALHGIMHGDOLMIMIEEGCPAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue\, 27 Feb 2007 07\:05\:52 -0800")
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> > So, should we use it for y-or-n-p and map-y-or-n and query-replace,
>> > or not?
>>
>> I think so because there is no other way to show that Emacs is asking
>> some sort of question.
>
> Those are blocking questions. You can't do anything but answer them.
Of course you can, particularly with focus-follows-mouse or even
mouse-autoselect-window.
And if you do so, you retain a dormant and unhappy pending minibuffer.
> Sooner or later, you will notice the question.
By which time it might no longer apply...
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-27 15:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-26 3:27 [lennart.borgman@gmail.com: Re: map-y-or-n does not use minibuffer-prompt face] Richard Stallman
2007-02-26 10:26 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-26 16:49 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-02-27 7:38 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-27 8:51 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-02-27 15:05 ` Drew Adams
2007-02-27 15:11 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-02-27 16:18 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-02-27 16:36 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-02-27 17:00 ` Drew Adams
2007-02-27 17:44 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-02-27 9:31 ` Miles Bader
2007-02-27 22:20 ` Miles Bader
2007-02-27 23:32 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-02-28 0:41 ` Miles Bader
2007-02-28 0:58 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-02-28 8:55 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-28 9:27 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-02-28 11:14 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-28 11:39 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-02-27 10:02 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-28 2:37 ` Richard Stallman
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