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Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master? |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Sep 2015 15:49:58 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <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?
>
> I don't object to moving yes-or-no-p to Elisp and/or to share code
> between yes-or-no-p and y-or-n-p, but the default behavior of Emacs
> should still be that yes-or-no-p uses the minibuffer and requires the
> user to type something like `y e s RET' while y-or-n-p is satisfied with
> a simple `y' or `SPC'.
Difficult since y-or-n-p allows scrolling the current window while using
the echo area for its prompt, and yes-or-no-p instead gives you a full
minibuffer entry as the current window.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, (continued)
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- 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?, Chad Brown, 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?, Kaushal Modi, 2015/09/04
- RE: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Drew Adams, 2015/09/04
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Stefan Monnier, 2015/09/04
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?,
David Kastrup <=
- 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?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/04
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/09/03
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/03
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/09/03
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Marcin Borkowski, 2015/09/03
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/09/03
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/03
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, David Kastrup, 2015/09/03
- Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?, Andy Moreton, 2015/09/03