From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
schwab@linux-m68k.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
kaushal.modi@gmail.com, acm@muc.de, drew.adams@oracle.com
Subject: Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2015 09:20:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a8t1s56t.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83fv2t8i1i.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 05 Sep 2015 10:03:05 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
>> Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, bruce.connor.am@gmail.com,
>> emacs-devel@gnu.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org,
>> monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, kaushal.modi@gmail.com, acm@muc.de,
>> drew.adams@oracle.com
>> Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 22:04:27 +0200
>>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> > I meant it already works if the script supplies "y" or "n", not
>> > literally "yes" and "no". If you had the latter in mind, then I see
>> > no reason for a script to supply "yes" when it knows that Emacs needs
>> > "y".
>>
>> How would the script know which user settings for the proposed
>> customizable yes-or-no-p behavior options are active when it is used in
>> a manner reading in the user init file before proceeding?
>
> The issue at hand was whether we need to have a way to make y-or-n-p
> behave like yes-or-no-p. So the scripts we are supposed to discuss
> are those that invoke y-or-n-p, whose behavior is not subject to
> customizations under my proposal.
>
> So the scripts should always supply y followed by a newline.
>
>> > But we could, of course, extend y-or-n-p to accept "yes" and "no" when
>> > in batch mode.
>> >
>> > IOW, it's a separate issue, whose solution is not necessarily to make
>> > y-or-n-p work as yes-or-no-p.
>>
>> It's not entirely separate since it extends the manners in which Emacs
>> might "legitimately" behave.
>
> In that regard, it indeed is not separate. But the number of manners
> in which Emacs might behave is truly infinite,
Not with regard to discrete-valued customizable options.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-05 7:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-03 16:31 yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master? Kaushal Modi
2015-09-03 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 17:22 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-09-03 17:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 17:43 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-09-03 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 17:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 18:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:18 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-09-03 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:23 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-03 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:43 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-09-03 18:45 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 9:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 9:14 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 9:16 ` Bastien
2015-09-04 9:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-04 10:32 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-04 11:03 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 11:52 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 12:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 12:39 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-05 5:02 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-09-04 12:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 12:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-04 12:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 13:34 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-04 17:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 18:14 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 18:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 18:39 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 18:52 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 18:53 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 19:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 19:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 20:00 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 20:04 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-05 7:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-05 7:20 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2015-09-04 19:56 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 18:36 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-04 17:31 ` Chad Brown
2015-09-04 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 12:59 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 14:42 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-04 13:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-04 13:49 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:27 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 18:18 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-03 18:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 18:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:33 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-03 21:47 ` Andy Moreton
2015-09-04 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 6:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-04 7:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 9:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-05 4:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-09-03 19:26 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-03 17:47 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 12:29 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-09-04 12:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 22:31 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2015-09-03 23:02 ` bug#21408: 25.0.50; yes-or-no-p prompt doesn't appear Katsumi Yamaoka
2015-09-03 23:53 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 0:23 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2015-09-03 23:54 ` yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master? Kaushal Modi
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