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bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answ
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 01:13:04 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> Do we all agree on the following points?
>
> 1. Users advising the yes/no confirmation-prompt functions
> is not a good solution to users wanting to sometimes (or
> always) use a different prompting approach from the one
> chosen by the author of the code that prompts.
I agree that advising the yes/no confirmation is not good
from a customization standpoint.
> 2. Choosing a single prompt approach (e.g. `y-or-n-p' or
> `yes-or-no-p') for all contexts might be appropriate for
> some users, but it is probably not a great idea in general.
Please see an optional argument ‘short’ that I added to my previous
patch. It will allow using short answers even when customizable
variable is nil where code authors deem appropriate.
> 3. Even a given user might appreciate that a given prompting
> context asks them using the slow approach (`yes-or-no-p')
> at first, or most of the time, but she might sometimes,
> or even generally after some experience, prefer that that
> prompting context use a faster approach (e.g. `y-or-n-p').
I'm not sure if we need more fine-grained customization.
If the user decides that a short answer is enough, enough is enough.
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, (continued)
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/01/12
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Juri Linkov, 2018/01/13
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Tino Calancha, 2018/01/14
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Juri Linkov, 2018/01/14
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/01/15
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Juri Linkov, 2018/01/15
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/01/16
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Juri Linkov, 2018/01/17
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Juri Linkov, 2018/01/18
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Drew Adams, 2018/01/15
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers,
Juri Linkov <=
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Drew Adams, 2018/01/15
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Juri Linkov, 2018/01/17
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/01/17
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Juri Linkov, 2018/01/18
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Juri Linkov, 2018/01/21
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Drew Adams, 2018/01/25
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Juri Linkov, 2018/01/25
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Drew Adams, 2018/01/25
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/01/26
- bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers, Juri Linkov, 2018/01/27