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

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 03:00:38 +0000

Juri Linkov <[email-masked]> writes:

> I customized ‘yes-or-no-p’ in ~/.emacs to short answers:
>
>   (fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)
>
> but now ‘dired-do-delete’ ignores this customization, and always requires
> typing a full answer “yes” with RET when deleting recursively all subdirs,
> instead of accepting just a single letter ‘y’ as before the recent change.
>
> I think in this case better is to accept ‘y’ for “yes”, and ‘!’ for “all”
> like in ‘query-replace-map’.

Just linking bug#27940, where the move away from using yes-or-no-p in
function dired-delete-file was discussed:

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=27940

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Basil