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bug#27979: tab completion for "(yes or no)?"


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#27979: tab completion for "(yes or no)?"
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2017 19:49:55 +0300

> From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2017 15:59:33 +0900
> Cc: 27979@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> IMO, Emacs prefers `yes-or-no-p' for dangerous actions, and it
> uses `y-or-n-p' for safe ones.  I think this is good, to protect
> beginners from lost important data; offering TAB completion would
> somehow contradict this idiom.

Agreed.





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