From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Strange use of (run-with-timer 0 nil #'foo args) in do-after-load-evaluation
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 00:20:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmnDwrXCBkduQ1nJLXOqq8hZbG9AGoGOfURe=v84Xv7gPA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ftjctsx5.fsf@mail.linkov.net>
Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:
> > I think having a history for y-or-n-p doesn't sound very useful?
> > Hitting `M-p' doesn't to get to the previous answer just sounds
> > confusing to me.
>
> Please try the example I sent earlier. It feels quite naturally
> typing 'M-p RET' to repeat a previous y/n answer.
I think this is a misfeature. Imagine a user answering "Do you want
to save important file X before closing?" and is used to always having
"y" in her history. This time, "n" was the first item in history
because of some previous but now forgotten invocation the night
before. But the user hits "M-p RET" by habit, expecting that to mean
"y", and ends up discarding important work.
Using this puts a cognitive load on the user if she doesn't want to
make mistakes.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-28 23:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-26 10:14 Strange use of (run-with-timer 0 nil #'foo args) in do-after-load-evaluation Alan Mackenzie
2019-10-26 12:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-26 13:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-26 16:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-27 1:01 ` HaiJun Zhang
2019-10-27 21:57 ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-27 22:29 ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-28 9:41 ` martin rudalics
2019-10-28 2:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-28 10:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-28 22:19 ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-28 23:20 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2019-10-29 23:39 ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-29 11:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-29 23:45 ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-29 23:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-30 8:22 ` martin rudalics
2019-10-30 22:10 ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-31 2:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-03 20:50 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-05 22:54 ` bug#38076: Using minibuffer for y-or-n-p Juri Linkov
2019-11-06 22:25 ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-26 14:18 ` Strange use of (run-with-timer 0 nil #'foo args) in do-after-load-evaluation Alan Mackenzie
2019-10-26 15:27 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-10-27 21:51 ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-28 3:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
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