Subject: Re: bug#30073: 27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 19:39:48 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> FWIW, I find
>> 
>>   (advice-add 'yes-or-no-p :override #'y-or-n-p)
>> 
>> to be a slightly user-friendlier alternative to
>> 
>>   (fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)
>> 
>> as the former is at least reported by the help system.
>
> IMO, none of that is user-friendly as customization goes.  These are
> semi-kludgey hacks, which are okay for personal use, but not as
> advertised customization means.

Oh, absolutely; I meant that only as a side note.  Besides, one could
argue that the means to achieving the equivalent of this hack shouldn't
be any user-friendlier.

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Basil