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Re: lynx-dev dev21: What broke "quit on anything other than y"?
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David Combs |
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Re: lynx-dev dev21: What broke "quit on anything other than y"? |
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Wed, 31 Mar 1999 06:35:38 -0800 |
On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 04:57:57PM -0500, John Bley wrote:
> What broke the old behavior of quitting on anything other than y at the
> "Are you sure you want to quit? (y)" prompt?
> <snip>
A chance to give an alternative opinion.
Myself, i HATE this "quitting on anything OTHER THAN y" scheme,
that seems to exist throughout unix.
What's wrong with a tiny loop that keeps going until
it sees a yY or nN? Is FAR safer, eg when your hands
have somehow gotten placed wrongly on the keyboard.
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In emacs, note that for SOME "are you sure" questions,
eg for deleting files (I believe), it insists on
a FULLY SPELLED OUT "y-e-s".
In user-programs I write, my belief is "let them hang
themselves if they INSIST on it, but PROTECT them
from mere MISTAKES."
David