From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alex Schroeder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: y-or-n-p-with-timeout Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 19:14:52 +0100 Message-ID: <87wtwyn8tf.fsf@confusibombus.example.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1099774610 23739 80.91.229.6 (6 Nov 2004 20:56:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 20:56:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 06 21:56:41 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CQXc0-00028T-00 for ; Sat, 06 Nov 2004 21:56:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CQXkG-0001q7-VN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Nov 2004 16:05:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CQXjR-0001VJ-Tx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Nov 2004 16:04:22 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CQXjQ-0001UQ-LI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Nov 2004 16:04:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CQXjQ-0001UL-Af for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Nov 2004 16:04:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.8] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CQXah-0002OS-Lz; Sat, 06 Nov 2004 15:55:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [62.2.95.247] (helo=smtp.hispeed.ch) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CQV7c-0002Hx-73; Sat, 06 Nov 2004 13:17:09 -0500 Original-Received: from confusibombus.example.org.emacswiki.org (80-218-5-163.dclient.hispeed.ch [80.218.5.163]) by smtp.hispeed.ch (8.12.6/8.12.6/tornado-1.0) with ESMTP id iA6IErZa000640; Sat, 6 Nov 2004 19:14:53 +0100 Original-To: rms@gnu.org Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwCAYAAABXAvmHAAACkElEQVR42s1a0bLsIAgzjv// y7kPd9pVKxKVdk6fzux2C4EAwR6QZBpcQEopIf3Fq3a52Lfh0Mjjk99zcWYBwA2ihEen9jVxfAf/ u0+Y2HQwNoVw4Dx34trRV6NSjiLPmfPt77jwiBxB/3PnZ3B2AGxzHnGu0wcBwAIAyQwZGvQhiFcy YLOFQcSB/MS82n3ec37vykNqRFTX9rVWR2U5+pZNIggll0CUOQN9BDdm1LfBmcZxIEqjL6r2JU/D galaB7Zg4jlY2ulnIx9OR4iMRl38CAFyKaA8jAxE7lNn650VKMULZ/54crqn0YQCJGQliebXkFIK hwqmGm28cgsSjz/hzRCMneQEwMjVoH3gWTtMPgIslJUV5uIluvUEkyzU+gUGQO62e9NuSdZCzNOM fDPC87iCqfE9gHinsIrSL16TPBfrYIeHzqKU90a50jCh54EcrgAUFo5ibzvebgr/I66USQ0CspQp IVSoBQK3WswDDIndIraHxoglqOjM1d044PQvu1NY0EHtqQR/XwJ+PeCs0x2dSlApZVw4MPER23PD 7JekoHxrqTRod/2Gx5nhx5dfAJhqPt7tDMIZxNN/7lOIaparPn7ZQ88drlORC2eLWXowxIq4gHTh VN1BSmsHoxYAbPWDTuGQuuecS+aYQUYpfr0YqPQOuuUk5tApK077+2xfOYP+XyWEIwPcE49lvT9N y2+wU2KylGGp4yxlALcm6fSlmgk62yfSsfNunDl5d6W91MBUoZw679YAJoMMkhijuXdFOL+khaL2 s+g3zy4APQuQvSc/BNAYnkl6E8ivYtEHJXa1dihE3zgnKMdNgN8DiIwgA17NykUMvFDQ+LALvXXI BuBLAHv/DvBmc/0HzR03PqXmLcQAAAAASUVORK5CYII= In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 06 Nov 2004 10:19:13 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:29482 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:29482 Richard Stallman writes: > The question is whether to make y-or-n-p-with-timeout work correctly > or to declare it obsolete. We could make it work using some other > timeout mechanism that can't run Lisp code. >>From a usability perspective I don't like these kinds of timeouts. They might make sense when booting your computer, but when using Emacs? I can't think of a use-case for y-or-n-p-with-timeout. If nobody brings up an interesting example, I think we should declare it obsolete. Alex. -- .O. http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/ ..O Schroeder's fifth law: OOO Never accept more work than you can handle in one night of hacking.