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From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, wl-en@lists.airs.net
Subject: Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102775: Allow format args for y-or-n-p and yes-or-no-p.
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:27:55 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4m1v4gzxn8.fsf@jpl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1PbGtF-0005Ln-Jb@internal.in.savannah.gnu.org

>   * lisp/subr.el (y-or-n-p): Accept format string args.
>   * src/fns.c (Fyes_or_no_p): Accept format string args.

So, how do we write a Lisp source program that is for various
Emacs versions, and that uses `y-or-n-p' or `yes-or-no-p' like
the following?  (Please try evaluating it.)

(y-or-n-p "Is it 100% ok? ")

It's no more than an example; a prompt string may be the one that
a fickle program generates.

(y-or-n-p "Is it 100%% ok? ")

is not a solution because it's bad for Emacs 23 and earlier (and
XEmacs).  Taiji Can reported in the wl list that Wanderlust causes
an error recently as follows:

> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Not enough arguments for format string")
[...]
>   y-or-n-p("Execute marks in %INBOX:username/clear@mailserver:143!!? (answer \"n\" to discard them) ")

Where "%INBOX:..." is a mail folder name that Wanderlust uses.
I think we can't help reverting it.

Regards,



       reply	other threads:[~2011-01-13 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1PbGtF-0005Ln-Jb@internal.in.savannah.gnu.org>
2011-01-13 14:27 ` Katsumi Yamaoka [this message]
2011-01-13 17:39   ` /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102775: Allow format args for y-or-n-p and yes-or-no-p Chong Yidong
2011-01-13 18:38     ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-13 18:53       ` Chong Yidong
2011-01-13 19:02         ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-13 19:14           ` /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102775: Allow format args for y-or-n-pand yes-or-no-p Drew Adams
2011-01-13 19:53           ` /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102775: Allow format args for y-or-n-p and yes-or-no-p Chong Yidong
2011-01-14  1:54     ` Richard Stallman
2011-01-20  2:59       ` Chong Yidong
2011-01-20  5:58         ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2011-01-13 20:54   ` Stefan Monnier

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