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bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answ
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 19:56:47 +0200 |
> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: tino.calancha@gmail.com, contovob@tcd.ie, 30073@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 01:02:27 +0200
>
> > Why limit this to Dired? People who use fset to get y-or-n-p want
> > that everywhere, right?
>
> Right, this is not specific to Dired. So we could add a new
> customizable variable, and easily change ‘yes-or-no-p’ to call
> ‘y-or-n-p’ if it's non-nil. Oh, wait, not so easily,
> I see that ‘yes-or-no-p’ is implemented in C.
Why is that a problem? C code can access Lisp variables and can call
Lips functions.
> Is there a particular reason why it's not in Lisp?
Probably history, coupled with the fact that a few things it does are
easier done in C.
> In any case this would be better customization to choose between
> “yes/no” and “y/n”.
Why better?
> Regarding a new multiple options reading function ‘read-answer’, I'm
> not sure where to put it.
How many callers does it have now, and which callers are those?
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, (continued)
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Juri Linkov, 2018/01/11
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/01/12
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Juri Linkov, 2018/01/13
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Tino Calancha, 2018/01/14
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Juri Linkov, 2018/01/14
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/01/15
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Juri Linkov, 2018/01/15
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Juri Linkov, 2018/01/17
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Juri Linkov, 2018/01/18
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Drew Adams, 2018/01/15
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Juri Linkov, 2018/01/15
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Drew Adams, 2018/01/15
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Juri Linkov, 2018/01/17
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/01/17
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Juri Linkov, 2018/01/18
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Juri Linkov, 2018/01/21
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Drew Adams, 2018/01/25