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Recursively delete dir34? (yes, no, all, quit)

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 27940 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: bug#27940: Recursively delete dir34? (yes, no, all, quit)
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 17:54:10 +0300

> From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: 27940 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  jidanni <at> jidanni.org
> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 23:33:51 +0900
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> 
> > Shouldn't the valid-answers be "yes" and "no", not "y" and "n", for
> > backward compatibility?
> Yes, they should.
> >
> >> +                                  (completing-read (format "Recursively %s %s? [y, n, !, q] "
> >
> > Maybe the "!" and "q" parts should be explained?  Or maybe just use
> > "yes", "no", "all", and "quite", which are self-explanatory?
> Look the updated patch; it's a mix:
> 1. uses 'yes', 'no'
> 2. '!', 'q', 'help'
>   This is similar like `query-replace' does (there is used '!', 'q', and
>   '?').  With 'help', a Help buffer is shown with a help message.
>   
> >
> > This warrants a NEWS entry, I think.  I also wonder whether we should
> > describe this in the user manual, under "Dired Deletion".
> I did.

Thanks, LGTM.

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