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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: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 23:57:01 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

>> FWIW, I find
>>
>>   (advice-add 'yes-or-no-p :override #'y-or-n-p)
>>
>> to be a slightly user-friendlier alternative to
>>
>>   (fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)
>>
>> as the former is at least reported by the help system.
>
> IMO, none of that is user-friendly as customization goes.  These are
> semi-kludgey hacks, which are okay for personal use, but not as
> advertised customization means.  YMMV, of course.

Maybe we should introduce a boolean customizable variable with a name
‘minibuffer-short-answers’ to be used by different packages that
currently rely on ‘yes-or-no-p’.





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