From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Confused by y-or-n-p Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 00:53:31 -0500 Message-ID: References: <834kkcr1eo.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36237"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 24 06:54:26 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ksJZy-0009J8-79 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 06:54:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56422 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ksJZx-0008H6-8M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 00:54:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38206) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ksJZ9-0007FE-3l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 00:53:35 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:36148) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ksJZ8-0005ja-SQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 00:53:34 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ksJZ5-0004VM-HT; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 00:53:31 -0500 In-Reply-To: <834kkcr1eo.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 23 Dec 2020 17:24:15 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:261661 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Would it make sense to add a user option to disallow switching from > the minibuffer in the middle of y-or-n-p? Then people who get > confused by this could set it to avoid the confusion. Please do! If you are happy with the current behavior, just don't set the option. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)