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From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
To: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Brief Busters <dgutov@yandex.ru>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
	emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2015 18:45:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFyQvY0OLFOsqO7hHYP8CtRHXKsZ35DcUbcyFGm1nGFBkAYiOA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAdUY-JRLv6D_zoZVPeNYH1mX7gdTK4L3G7V30eTthjUemHkEw@mail.gmail.com>

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Alright. It is given that many users including myself cannot do without
y-or-n-p.
So how do we resolve it? How do we make y-or-n-p work as well as it did
before? Why is it difficult? Let's discuss the technical challenges here.

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 2:43 PM Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
wrote:

> >> 2. User preferences vary.  Some users never want to respond to
> >> a `yes-or-no-p' prompt.  That's their choice.  It should be easy
> >> for them to express their choice and have Emacs respect it.
> >
> > But if (1) is not enough, then I think we should fix the rest
> > of the use cases via a user option that redirects yes-or-no-p to
> > y-or-n-p.  Requesting us to drag on with supporting such defaliases is
> > an unjustified maintenance burden.
>
> I agree with any solution that makes it possible. Be it user option or
> whatnot.
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-03 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-03 16:31 yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master? Kaushal Modi
2015-09-03 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 17:22   ` Artur Malabarba
2015-09-03 17:28     ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 17:43       ` Tassilo Horn
2015-09-03 17:43       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 17:47         ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 18:02           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:18             ` Artur Malabarba
2015-09-03 18:19               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:23               ` Drew Adams
2015-09-03 18:27                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:43                   ` Artur Malabarba
2015-09-03 18:45                     ` Kaushal Modi [this message]
2015-09-04  9:02                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04  9:14                       ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 12:33                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04  9:16                       ` Bastien
2015-09-04  9:26                       ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-04 10:32                         ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-04 11:03                           ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 11:52                             ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 12:30                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 12:39                             ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-05  5:02                           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-09-04 12:28                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 12:40                           ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-04 12:58                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 13:34                               ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-04 17:56                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 18:14                                   ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 18:28                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 18:39                                       ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 18:52                                         ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 18:53                                           ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 19:47                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 19:55                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 20:00                                             ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 20:04                                             ` David Kastrup
2015-09-05  7:03                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-05  7:20                                                 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 19:56                                           ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 18:36                                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-04 17:31                               ` Chad Brown
2015-09-04 17:54                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 12:59                             ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 14:42                               ` Drew Adams
2015-09-04 13:24                       ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-04 13:49                         ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 17:41                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 17:39                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:27             ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 18:30               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:33                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 18:18           ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-03 18:25             ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 18:28               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:33                 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-03 21:47                   ` Andy Moreton
2015-09-04  6:32                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04  6:48                     ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-04  7:00                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04  9:25                         ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-05  4:06                         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-09-03 19:26               ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-03 17:47         ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 12:29         ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-09-04 12:36           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 22:31   ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2015-09-03 23:02     ` bug#21408: 25.0.50; yes-or-no-p prompt doesn't appear Katsumi Yamaoka
2015-09-03 23:53       ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04  0:23         ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2015-09-03 23:54     ` yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master? Kaushal Modi

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