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A more demanding yes-or-no and a wordlists package
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Yuval Langer |
Subject: |
A more demanding yes-or-no and a wordlists package |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Sep 2023 21:11:29 +0000 |
People often alias yes-or-no with y-or-n, which is a less demanding
confirmation function.
I thought, hey, what about aliasing yes-or-no with something even more
demanding to avoid confirming stuff accidentally?
I had a few ideas which I plan on implementing:
One idea (Google's Gmail's Drunk Mode) is to ask the user to solve a
small arithmetic problem, which I haven't yet implemented.
Another idea given by a friend was to prompt something like this with
randomly capitalised letters:
"If yOU undERstanD what you'rE doing, enter the capitalized letters here:"
What I did do is write a function which asks the user to write a
sequence of randomly selected words from a wordlist in order to
confirm, and another to decline. [1] Right now it only uses a dummy
wordlist, but I have also written another package which provides a
selection of publicly known wordlists, which the first package would
be dependent on.
The wordlist package [2] bundles publicly known worslists such as the
Diceware wordlists and the EFF wordlists. I took the original files
as they are from those projects, and produce vectors of strings, each
vector is a wordlist.
It might just be my horrid code, but it takes a noticeable amount of
time to produce the vectors. How should I cache the results of the
wordlist producing functions?
Another concern is that this solution takes a lot of memory? Could I
make this dependency optional in the super-duper-yes-or-no package?
This is partly an exercise in learning Emacs Lisp, but maybe someone
would find it useful?
p.s. I haven't yet created their https://sr.ht/ homes, so they are
still only up on https://codeberg.org/
[1]: <https://codeberg.org/yuvallangerontheroad/super-duper-yes-or-no>
[2]: <https://codeberg.org/yuvallangerontheroad/emacs-wordlists>
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