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Re: Confused by y-or-n-p
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Confused by y-or-n-p |
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Wed, 23 Dec 2020 19:35:12 +0200 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 11:45:46 -0500
>
> > Would it make sense to add a user option to disallow switching from
> > the minibuffer in the middle of y-or-n-p? Then people who get
> > confused by this could set it to avoid the confusion.
>
> I wonder what makes `y-or-n-p` special in this respect.
> IOW, I think the answer is "yes, it would make sense" but I also think
> this option should apply to other cases that `y-or-n-p`.
>
> Maybe it could/should even apply to most uses of the minibuffer?
Could be. However, y-or-n-p is somewhat special, in that it allowed
only very restricted set of things to type. By contrast
read-from-minibuffer always allowed switching out of the minibuffer.
Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/12/23
Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Karl Fogel, 2020/12/23
Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Richard Stallman, 2020/12/24