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Re: Confused by y-or-n-p


From: David Masterson
Subject: Re: Confused by y-or-n-p
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 22:06:16 -0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux)

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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>
>   > Would it make sense to add a user option to disallow switching from
>   > the minibuffer in the middle of y-or-n-p?  Then people who get
>   > confused by this could set it to avoid the confusion.
>
> Please do!  If you are happy with the current behavior, just don't
> set the option.

This would also make sense as a general accessibility option. I have a
sensitive laptop and essential tremors. I often find that I've
accidentally hit the touchpad causing the cursor to jump to where the
mouse is.  It takes a moment to get back to where I was.  An option to
disable-switching-if-minibuffer-active would help.

-- 
David Masterson



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