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bug#19368: 25.0.50; NSM prompt is not self-explanatory enough
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#19368: 25.0.50; NSM prompt is not self-explanatory enough |
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Sun, 21 Dec 2014 12:50:38 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>> Yeah. But shouldn't we have a general multiple-choice library function
>>> for these (sort of) extended y-or-n-p functions?
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> The closest is probably read-char-choice.
It's kinda close, but it doesn't tell the user what the expansions to
the choices are, which I think is kinda useful. Gnus has some
multiple-choice prompts that are longer than can be displayed in the
echo buffer nicely, and it would be nice if it auto-shortened the help
texts...
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