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Re: Confused by y-or-n-p
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: Confused by y-or-n-p |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Dec 2020 19:09:41 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> And while we're there we could also try to relieve some of our .emacs
> files (mine included) of those
>
> (defalias 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)
>
> by providing an option that accomplishes the necessary mapping.
Maybe something like this:
diff --git a/lisp/cus-start.el b/lisp/cus-start.el
index 2e8872341f..4376f9835e 100644
--- a/lisp/cus-start.el
+++ b/lisp/cus-start.el
@@ -302,6 +302,7 @@ minibuffer-prompt-properties--setter
;; fns.c
(use-dialog-box menu boolean "21.1")
(use-file-dialog menu boolean "22.1")
+ (use-short-answers menu boolean "28.1")
(focus-follows-mouse
frames (choice
(const :tag "Off (nil)" :value nil)
diff --git a/src/fns.c b/src/fns.c
index 2de1d26dd3..128bd7af55 100644
--- a/src/fns.c
+++ b/src/fns.c
@@ -2873,6 +2873,11 @@ DEFUN ("yes-or-no-p", Fyes_or_no_p, Syes_or_no_p, 1, 1,
0,
return obj;
}
+ if (use_short_answers)
+ {
+ return call1 (intern ("y-or-n-p"), prompt);
+ }
+
AUTO_STRING (yes_or_no, "(yes or no) ");
prompt = CALLN (Fconcat, prompt, yes_or_no);
@@ -5791,6 +5796,10 @@ syms_of_fns (void)
this variable. */);
use_file_dialog = true;
+ DEFVAR_BOOL ("use-short-answers", use_short_answers,
+ doc: /* Non-nil means `yes-or-no-p' uses shorter answers "y" or "n". */);
+ use_short_answers = false;
+
defsubr (&Sidentity);
defsubr (&Srandom);
defsubr (&Slength);
Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Richard Stallman, 2020/12/24
Re: Confused by y-or-n-p,
Juri Linkov <=