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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "larsi@gnus.org" <larsi@gnus.org>,
	"13649@debbugs.gnu.org" <13649@debbugs.gnu.org>,
	"jidanni@jidanni.org" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Subject: bug#13649: boobytrapped dired-do-async-shell-command question
Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 20:27:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR10MB548896B7E2602FA23A6070D4F3C89@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <864k1w3sp3.fsf@mail.linkov.net>

> >>   (y-or-n-p "File ‘foo.el’ exists; overwrite?")
> >>
> >> ‘C-l’, ‘C-v’, ‘M-v’ work fine and scroll the original buffer.
> >>
> >> But yes-or-no-p (BTW, it requires the space char at the end of the
> prompt):
> >>
> >>   (yes-or-no-p "Buffer foo.el modified; kill anyway? ")
> >>
> >> ‘C-l’, ‘C-v’, ‘M-v’ don't scroll the original buffer.
> >
> > Isn't that expected?  y-or-n-p doesn't need to allow you to edit the
> > text in the minibuffer.
> 
> Maybe this difference is unimportant.  But still remains the need
> to find a key to show help text from yes-or-no-p.  y-or-n-p now
> uses C-h to show help, but in yes-or-no-p C-h is useful as
> a help key prefix.

Apologies for not following this.
If you're looking for a key that will show some help,
maybe consider `?'.

I use that in `dired+.el' for some similar things.
And `dired.el' uses it for `dired-summary' (to show
why something went wrong).

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-05-11 20:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-07 16:25 bug#13649: boobytrapped dired-do-async-shell-command question jidanni
2013-02-07 17:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-07 17:11 ` jidanni
2013-02-08  8:25 ` Juri Linkov
2013-02-08 13:44   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-08 16:03     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-08 16:07       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-08 16:59         ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-08 17:07           ` Drew Adams
2013-02-08 16:33       ` Drew Adams
2013-02-09  0:46     ` Juri Linkov
2013-02-09  8:33       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-08 15:11   ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-09  0:49     ` Juri Linkov
2013-02-09  1:47       ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-10 10:10         ` Juri Linkov
2013-02-10 16:19           ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-09  3:36 ` jidanni
2013-02-10 13:22 ` jidanni
2013-02-10 13:52   ` Juri Linkov
2013-02-10 14:20 ` jidanni
2013-02-10 15:22   ` Juri Linkov
2013-02-10 15:28 ` jidanni
2013-02-11  9:18   ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-24 13:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-24 15:44   ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-24 15:57     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-25 15:40       ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-26  9:49         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-26 15:44           ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-27 12:11             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-08 17:49               ` Juri Linkov
2022-05-08 18:57                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-09 18:42                   ` Juri Linkov
2022-05-09 19:20                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-11  7:17                       ` Juri Linkov
2022-05-11 11:38                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-11 17:06                           ` Juri Linkov
2022-05-11 17:40                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-12 16:52                               ` Juri Linkov
2022-05-12 17:21                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-12 17:34                                   ` Juri Linkov
2022-05-12 17:39                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-11 20:27                             ` Drew Adams [this message]
2022-05-12  5:22                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-12 16:19                                 ` Drew Adams
2022-05-12 16:54                               ` Juri Linkov
2022-05-09  9:42                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-09  9:43                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-09 18:47                   ` Juri Linkov
2022-05-10  1:53                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-11 16:59                       ` Juri Linkov

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