From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to avoid y-or-n-p in a program?
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 14:14:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr4672sl9.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87y50fqvh2.fsf@gmail.com
> when in a program function A calls another (external) function B that
> asks the user a y-or-n-p question, and you want to avoid that and
> instead code in function A that the answer is always Y, so that the
> prompt never shows up - how do you do that?
The recommended way:
- change B so that it doesn't call y-or-n-p unconditionally.
- change A to adjust to the new behavior of B.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-12 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-12 15:37 How to avoid y-or-n-p in a program? Thorsten Jolitz
2014-03-12 16:14 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-03-12 16:50 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-12 18:14 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-03-12 22:31 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-03-14 14:26 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-03-14 14:35 ` Stefan
2014-03-14 14:48 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-03-14 16:09 ` Stefan
2014-03-14 17:21 ` Thorsten Jolitz
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