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bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Feb 2021 22:27:49 +0200 |
> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, larsi@gnus.org, 46594@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 21:49:19 +0200
>
> >> +** New variable 'use-short-answers' to use 'y-or-n-p' instead of
> >> 'yes-or-no-p'.
> >> +This relieves of the need to define an alias that maps one to another
> >> +in the init file.
> >
> > is this only about y-or-n-p vs yes-or-no-p? Or do we expect to use
> > this variable for other answers? In the former case, perhaps the name
> > of the variable should include "yes-or-no" somewhere, since
> > "use-short-answers" sounds too general to hint on its use, IMO.
>
> This is not only about about y-or-n-p/yes-or-no-p. It also affects
> the function 'read-answer' and its option 'read-answer-short'.
Then why neither NEWS nor the doc string mention those other APIs?
- bug#46594: Use short answers, Juri Linkov, 2021/02/17
- bug#46594: Use short answers, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/02/22
- bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers, Drew Adams, 2021/02/22
- bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers, Juri Linkov, 2021/02/24
- bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/24
- bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers, Juri Linkov, 2021/02/24
- bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers, Juri Linkov, 2021/02/24
- bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/25
- bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers, Juri Linkov, 2021/02/25
- bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers, Drew Adams, 2021/02/24
- bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers, Juri Linkov, 2021/02/25
- bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers, Drew Adams, 2021/02/25