Re: Emacs not configurable enough? (was Re: bug?)

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From: Richard Kuhns
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 1990 15:26

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In article <TOM.90Apr17072023@hcx2.ssd.csd.harris.com> tom@ssd.csd.harris.com (Tom Horsley) writes:

   The point is that no one cares if *you* think it is wise or not. It is only
   important if the emacs user thinks it is wise. That's the whole point of
   configurability. I personally ***DESPISE*** yes-or-no-p and would also
   VASTLY prefer that there was some way to uniformly replace all instances of
   it with y-or-n-p. [....]

   Actually I can simply write a defun for yes-or-no-p that just calls y-or-n-p
   (at least I think I can), but that doesn't help the places in the C code
   that directly call the C function yes-or-no-p.

I've had pretty good luck with putting

(fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)

in my .emacs.

Rich Kuhns
newton.physics.purdue.edu!sawmill!rjk

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Subject: Re: Emacs not configurable enough?    (was Re: bug?)
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