GNU bug report logs - #30073
27.0.50; dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>

Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 21:45:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Merged with 28525

Found in versions 26.0.60, 27.0.50

Done: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #31 received at 30073 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: contovob <at> tcd.ie, 30073 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30073: 27.0.50;
 dired-do-delete ignores customization for short answers
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 11:57:21 +0200

> From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
> Cc: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>,  30073 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 23:54:41 +0200
> 
> What is worse, it doesn't work at all - setting dired-deletion-confirmer
> to y-or-n-p has no effect on the question “Recursively delete ...? ”.
> It still expects “[yes, no, all, quit, help]” answers, not short ones
> like “y/n/!/q/?”.

If you want to use y-or-n-p there, you will have to replace
dired--yes-no-all-quit-help with your own function.
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