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bug#27979: tab completion for "(yes or no)?"
From: |
Tino Calancha |
Subject: |
bug#27979: tab completion for "(yes or no)?" |
Date: |
Sun, 06 Aug 2017 15:59:33 +0900 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> You know those programs that ask you "(yes or no)?"
> Well wouldn't it be great if one could hit y<TAB> and then it would
> become "yes" etc.
>
> Ah, yes-or-no-p is a built-in function in ‘C source code’.
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.
Some experts have in their Emacs init file:
(fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)
;; So that they will be prompted with (y or n).
- bug#27979: tab completion for "(yes or no)?", 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson, 2017/08/05
- bug#27979: tab completion for "(yes or no)?",
Tino Calancha <=
- bug#27979: tab completion for "(yes or no)?", Drew Adams, 2017/08/06
- bug#27979: tab completion for "(yes or no)?", Tino Calancha, 2017/08/06
- bug#27979: tab completion for "(yes or no)?", Drew Adams, 2017/08/06
- bug#27979: tab completion for "(yes or no)?", Tino Calancha, 2017/08/06
- bug#27979: tab completion for "(yes or no)?", Drew Adams, 2017/08/06
- bug#27979: tab completion for "(yes or no)?", Drew Adams, 2017/08/06
bug#27979: tab completion for "(yes or no)?", Eli Zaretskii, 2017/08/06
bug#27979: tab completion for "(yes or no)?", 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson, 2017/08/06