From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to avoid y-or-n-p in a program?
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:48:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fvmkq1jw.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvha70am17.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org
Stefan <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Is it generally considered a (kind of) bug when a COMMAND (not a
>> function) calls y-or-n-p unconditionally (or enforces user input in
>> other ways)?
>
> Not sure about "generally", but it's a good principle to decompose
> a functionality into a "batch-only" part and an interactive wrapper.
So rather than adding additional function args to the command and using
something like (when (called-interactively-p) ...) the canonical way
would be to split the command into a function (probably with additional
function args) and a command that calls this function (the interactive
wrapper)?
> So we probably wouldn't consider all such cases as bugs, but if
> a particular case is problematic, you should definitely request the
> change (which we may sometimes reject, of course, typically if it would
> require too many/ugly modifications to the code).
This would be more directed towards Org-mode I think ...
What if a command/function is overly verbose wrt to messages when used
in a program? Is it reasonable to ask for including an optional switch
like this
(defun xyz (args &optional quiet)
(unless quiet
(message ...)))
to be able to suppress all the messages in the function call?
--
cheers,
Thorsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-14 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-12 15:37 How to avoid y-or-n-p in a program? Thorsten Jolitz
2014-03-12 16:14 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-03-12 16:50 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-12 18:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-03-12 22:31 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-03-14 14:26 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-03-14 14:35 ` Stefan
2014-03-14 14:48 ` Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
2014-03-14 16:09 ` Stefan
2014-03-14 17:21 ` Thorsten Jolitz
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