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bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Feb 2021 21:49:19 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> +** New variable 'use-short-answers' to use 'y-or-n-p' instead of
>> 'yes-or-no-p'.
>> +This relieves of the need to define an alias that maps one to another
>> +in the init file.
>
> is this only about y-or-n-p vs yes-or-no-p? Or do we expect to use
> this variable for other answers? In the former case, perhaps the name
> of the variable should include "yes-or-no" somewhere, since
> "use-short-answers" sounds too general to hint on its use, IMO.
This is not only about about y-or-n-p/yes-or-no-p. It also affects
the function 'read-answer' and its option 'read-answer-short'.
BTW, a related question: maybe recently added 'y-or-n-p-use-read-key'
and 'read-char-choice-use-read-key' could be joined into one option,
e.g. 'use-read-key'?
- bug#46594: Use short answers, Juri Linkov, 2021/02/17
- bug#46594: Use short answers, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/02/22
- bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers, Drew Adams, 2021/02/22
- bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers, Juri Linkov, 2021/02/24
- bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/24
- bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers,
Juri Linkov <=
- bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/24
- bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers, Juri Linkov, 2021/02/24
- bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/25
- bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers, Juri Linkov, 2021/02/25
- bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers, Drew Adams, 2021/02/24
- bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers, Juri Linkov, 2021/02/25
- bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers, Drew Adams, 2021/02/25