From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
schwab@linux-m68k.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
dgutov@yandex.ru, acm@muc.de, drew.adams@oracle.com
Subject: Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 18:52:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFyQvY16cvLey9j-4r-37pgy67G5ETQg6hLzhfw8M5jSJnze8g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877fo6t4f9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
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@Eli, @Drew
Would this psuedocode work?
(progn
;; Possible values: nil, 'quick, 'verbose
;; (defconst yes-or-no-option nil)
;; (defconst yes-or-no-option 'quick)
(defconst yes-or-no-option 'verbose)
;; If nil, yes-or-no-p and y-or-n-p will work their traditional ways
;; If 'quick , both yes-or-no-p and y-or-n-p will work like y-or-n-p
;; If 'verbose , both yes-or-no-p and y-or-n-p will work like yes-or-no-p
;; yes-or-no-p now implemented in elisp instead of C
(defun yes-or-no-p (prompt)
(if (eq yes-or-no-option 'quick)
(message "y/n")
(message "yes/no")))
;; y-or-n-p redefined
(defun y-or-n-p (prompt)
(let* ((orig--yes-or-no-option yes-or-no-option)
(yes-or-no-option (if (eq orig--yes-or-no-option 'verbose)
'verbose
'quick)))
(yes-or-no-p prompt)))
(message "yes-or-no-p:")
(yes-or-no-p "Q? ")
(message "y-or-n-p:")
(y-or-n-p "Q? ")
nil)
On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 2:50 PM David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> >> Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, kaushal.modi@gmail.com,
> >> bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
> >> schwab@linux-m68k.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru,
> >> drew.adams@oracle.com
> >> Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 20:14:51 +0200
> >>
> >> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> >>
> >> > The intent is to provide a predicate defcustom that allows to cause
> >> > yes-or-no-p behave like y-or-n-p. y-or-n-p will always behave as it
> >> > does, and I didn't intend to change that, as I don't see the use case
> >> > for that.
> >>
> >> Reliable translation into selection boxes when feeding emacs -batch from
> >> a script?
> >
> > y-or-n-p already does TRT in that case (no dialog boxes in -batch).
>
> Feeding emacs -batch _from_ a script. Meaning the script supplies "yes"
> and "no".
>
> >> Predictable behavior when navigating Emacs by voice?
> >
> > I don't see the relevance, please elaborate.
>
> Same as above. External input translated into a source for consumption
> by Emacs.
>
> >> Some people may prefer saying "yes" to saying "why".
> >
> > Likewise.
>
> "why" is phonetically the same as "y". Which means that it's likely
> harder to generate just "y" from voice than "yes".
>
> --
> 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
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 [this message]
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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