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Re: y-or-n-p-with-timeout
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Luc Teirlinck |
Subject: |
Re: y-or-n-p-with-timeout |
Date: |
Tue, 9 Nov 2004 17:16:12 -0600 (CST) |
Richard Stallman wrote:
Anyway, please tell me if you know of a good use for this function.
If I don't hear of one, I will mark it obsolete.
feedmail.el uses `y-or-n-p-with-timeout' at a couple of places. It
falls back on the regular `y-or-no-p' for Emacs versions for which
`y-or-n-p-with-timeout' is not defined. If I understand correctly it
will _automatically_ fall back on the regular `y-or-no-p' behavior on
platforms and in situations where `y-or-n-p-with-timeout' is broken.
It would seem that this is exactly the desired behavior in such
situations.
y-or-n-p-with-timeout does not exactly do a lot:
(defun y-or-n-p-with-timeout (prompt seconds default-value)
"Like (y-or-n-p PROMPT), with a timeout.
If the user does not answer after SECONDS seconds, return DEFAULT-VALUE."
(with-timeout (seconds default-value)
(y-or-n-p prompt)))
If `y-or-n-p-with-timeout' is broken on some platforms in certain
situations does this not automatically imply that `with-timeout' is
broken on these same platforms in those same situations?
Sincerely,
Luc.
Re: y-or-n-p-with-timeout, Matthew Mundell, 2004/11/08
- Re: y-or-n-p-with-timeout, Richard Stallman, 2004/11/09
- Re: y-or-n-p-with-timeout, Matthew Mundell, 2004/11/09
- Re: y-or-n-p-with-timeout, Richard Stallman, 2004/11/10
- Re: y-or-n-p-with-timeout, Matthew Mundell, 2004/11/12
- Re: y-or-n-p-with-timeout, Richard Stallman, 2004/11/13
Re: y-or-n-p-with-timeout, Jan D., 2004/11/06