From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to avoid y-or-n-p in a program? Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 23:31:41 +0100 Message-ID: <87txb3oxpu.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87y50fqvh2.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1394663721 2272 80.91.229.3 (12 Mar 2014 22:35:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 22:35:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 12 23:35:29 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1WNrkF-0004qs-V2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 23:35:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35254 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WNrkF-00053X-C6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 18:35:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50460) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WNrjz-0004zC-2Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 18:35:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WNrjt-0002av-9Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 18:35:11 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:44548) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WNrjt-0002WW-3f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 18:35:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WNrjr-0004TC-Ff for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 23:35:03 +0100 Original-Received: from e178061230.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.61.230]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 23:35:03 +0100 Original-Received: from tjolitz by e178061230.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 23:35:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178061230.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1XvHeOxzHmC6RIj4gZJZ/xAnVeQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96481 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: Hi Tassilo, Juanma and Stefan, >> when in a program function A calls another (external) function B that >> asks the user a y-or-n-p question, and you want to avoid that and >> instead code in function A that the answer is always Y, so that the >> prompt never shows up - how do you do that? > > The recommended way: > - change B so that it doesn't call y-or-n-p unconditionally. > - change A to adjust to the new behavior of B. Thanks for your tips, so I have more than one solution. Have to figure out the way of least resistance... -- cheers, Thorsten