GNU bug report logs - #19368
25.0.50; NSM prompt is not self-explanatory enough

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 19368 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19368: 25.0.50; NSM prompt is not self-explanatory enough
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 12:50:38 +0100

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> 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?
>
> 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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