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From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: contovob@tcd.ie, 30073@debbugs.gnu.org,
	Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 01:13:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d12aaedz.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e68e905a-6eca-4a79-8027-60d9f251f41b@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 15 Jan 2018 09:01:24 -0800 (PST)")

> Do we all agree on the following points?
>
> 1. Users advising the yes/no confirmation-prompt functions
>    is not a good solution to users wanting to sometimes (or
>    always) use a different prompting approach from the one
>    chosen by the author of the code that prompts.

I agree that advising the yes/no confirmation is not good
from a customization standpoint.

> 2. Choosing a single prompt approach (e.g. `y-or-n-p' or
>    `yes-or-no-p') for all contexts might be appropriate for
>    some users, but it is probably not a great idea in general.

Please see an optional argument ‘short’ that I added to my previous
patch.  It will allow using short answers even when customizable
variable is nil where code authors deem appropriate.

> 3. Even a given user might appreciate that a given prompting
>    context asks them using the slow approach (`yes-or-no-p')
>    at first, or most of the time, but she might sometimes,
>    or even generally after some experience, prefer that that
>    prompting context use a faster approach (e.g. `y-or-n-p').

I'm not sure if we need more fine-grained customization.
If the user decides that a short answer is enough, enough is enough.





  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-15 23:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-10 21:41 bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers Juri Linkov
2018-01-11  3:00 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-01-11 15:52   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-11 17:34     ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-01-11 18:01       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-11 19:39         ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-01-11 21:57         ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-11 21:54     ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-12  9:57       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-13 22:38         ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-14 11:01           ` Tino Calancha
2018-01-14 22:53             ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-15  5:19               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-15 23:02                 ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-16 17:56                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-17 22:56                     ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-18 21:11                       ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-15 17:01               ` Drew Adams
2018-01-15 23:13                 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2018-01-16  0:48                   ` Drew Adams
2018-01-17 22:03                     ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-18  3:36                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-18 21:12                         ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-21 21:46                           ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-25 18:04                             ` Drew Adams
2018-01-25 21:20                               ` Juri Linkov
2018-01-25 21:48                                 ` Drew Adams
2018-01-26  7:57                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-27 21:20                                   ` Juri Linkov

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