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Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master? |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Sep 2015 15:30:42 +0300 |
> From: Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 12:32:04 +0200
>
>
> On 2015-09-04, at 11:26, Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> >> Any objections to removing yes-or-no-p (with a defalias for backward
> >> compatibility, of course) and making y-or-n-p serve both duties,
> >> controlled by some defcustom?
> >
> > That doesn't make sense. They implement different intented meaning.
>
> +1. They serve different purposes, and they are both needed.
This is a misunderstanding: I didn't suggest to remove any
functionality. You will still be able to do exactly what each of
these functions do, just their implementation will be in a single
function.
> While I understand that someone might want to make yes-or-no-p
> behave like y-or-n-p all the time, someone else (like, say, me)
> might want to use y-or-n-p in places where just a confirmation is a
> nice thing to have, and yes-or-no-p in places where you really want
> to make sure that the user does not accidentally press `y'.
That's a no-brainer, and I never said anything to the contrary.
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, (continued)
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Artur Malabarba, 2015/09/03
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Kaushal Modi, 2015/09/03
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/04
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, David Kastrup, 2015/09/04
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/04
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Bastien, 2015/09/04
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Andreas Schwab, 2015/09/04
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Marcin Borkowski, 2015/09/04
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, David Kastrup, 2015/09/04
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Kaushal Modi, 2015/09/04
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Marcin Borkowski, 2015/09/04
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/09/05
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/04
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Andreas Schwab, 2015/09/04
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/04
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/09/04
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/04
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, David Kastrup, 2015/09/04
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/04
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, David Kastrup, 2015/09/04