From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Bruce Connor <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>,
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 07:52:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFyQvY0QTBi4N_KbvOwadmJ6_oSywJJO7KsVu5E1ts1FjgUuCg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lhcmv42y.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
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> Any objections to removing yes-or-no-p (with a defalias for backward
compatibility, of course) and making y-or-n-p serve both duties, controlled
by some defcustom?
I don't mind that.
--
Kaushal Modi
On Sep 4, 2015 7:03 AM, "David Kastrup" <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>
> > On 2015-09-04, at 11:26, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> >>
> >>> Any objections to removing yes-or-no-p (with a defalias for backward
> >>> compatibility, of course) and making y-or-n-p serve both duties,
> >>> controlled by some defcustom?
> >>
> >> That doesn't make sense. They implement different intented meaning.
> >
> > +1. They serve different purposes, and they are both needed. At the
> > same time. While I understand that someone might want to make
> > yes-or-no-p behave like y-or-n-p all the time, someone else (like, say,
> > me) might want to use y-or-n-p in places where just a confirmation is
> > a nice thing to have, and yes-or-no-p in places where you really want to
> > make sure that the user does not accidentally press `y'.
>
> Not just 'y'. y-or-n-p is quite apt to turn any kind of typeahead into
> an unintended answer. From its DOC string:
>
> No confirmation of the answer is requested; a single character is
> enough. SPC also means yes, and DEL means no.
>
> --
> David Kastrup
>
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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
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 [this message]
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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