From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master? Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 22:00:35 +0200 Message-ID: <87twrarm3g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <83fv2v9y9z.fsf@gnu.org> <57355235-9af7-49fb-81b5-93182cfc9d49@default> <83a8t39x3t.fsf@gnu.org> <83zj128slp.fsf@gnu.org> <87k2s6o7qh.fsf@igel.home> <83wpw68j2n.fsf@gnu.org> <871teenysf.fsf@igel.home> <83r3me8ho3.fsf@gnu.org> <20150904133439.GB2991@acm.fritz.box> <83lhcm83vl.fsf@gnu.org> <87fv2ut5k4.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83k2s682el.fsf@gnu.org> <877fo6t4f9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83io7q7yrq.fsf@gnu.org> <83h9na7ydq.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441396867 17259 80.91.229.3 (4 Sep 2015 20:01:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 20:01:07 +0000 (UTC) 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 To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 04 22:01:05 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXxAW-0003Ju-Rb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 22:01:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34828 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXxAW-0005Q5-VM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 16:01:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59364) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXxAA-0005Pf-LE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 16:00:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXxA9-0000Pf-Ms for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 16:00:42 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60096) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXxA5-0000P7-KJ; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 16:00:37 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45682 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXxA4-0005dT-Kv; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 16:00:36 -0400 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E0C04E0FA8; Fri, 4 Sep 2015 22:00:35 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <83h9na7ydq.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 04 Sep 2015 22:55:29 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:189619 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 22:47:05 +0300 >> From: Eli Zaretskii >> 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 >> >> > From: David Kastrup >> > Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 20:39:22 +0200 >> > 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 >> > >> > >> Reliable translation into selection boxes when feeding emacs -batch from >> > >> a script? >> > > >> > > y-or-n-p already does TRT in that case (no dialog boxes in -batch). >> > >> > Feeding emacs -batch _from_ a script. Meaning the script supplies "yes" >> > and "no". >> >> That already works, AFAIK. > > I meant it already works if the script supplies "y" or "n", not > literally "yes" and "no". Let me guess: you checked after posting your reply and followed up (in overlap to my reply to the original reply). It hardly makes sense that you indeed meant it at the time of writing: > >> "why" is phonetically the same as "y". Which means that it's likely >> harder to generate just "y" from voice than "yes". > > Then it should work already. -- David Kastrup