* Catchup command request
@ 1997-01-25 7:26 Steven L Baur
1997-01-25 8:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Steven L Baur @ 1997-01-25 7:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
May I respectfully request that the c) atchup command in the *Summary*
buffer use yes-or-no-p instead of y-or-n-p?
Yes, I just destroyed another nnml group by typing `cd ' in XEmacs
when I thought an xterm had keyboard focus :-(.
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* Re: Catchup command request
1997-01-25 7:26 Catchup command request Steven L Baur
@ 1997-01-25 8:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-01-26 19:50 ` Steven L Baur
1997-01-25 16:36 ` William M. Perry
1997-01-27 19:46 ` Karl Anderson
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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 1997-01-25 8:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
> May I respectfully request that the c) atchup command in the *Summary*
> buffer use yes-or-no-p instead of y-or-n-p?
>
> Yes, I just destroyed another nnml group by typing `cd ' in XEmacs
> when I thought an xterm had keyboard focus :-(.
Can't you just press `M-C-_' in the group buffer to undo the change?
(That is, if undoing has started working now. It hasn't been tested
much, and I suspect that's because not many people are aware of the
command...
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larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen
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* Re: Catchup command request
1997-01-25 7:26 Catchup command request Steven L Baur
1997-01-25 8:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
@ 1997-01-25 16:36 ` William M. Perry
1997-01-27 19:46 ` Karl Anderson
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From: William M. Perry @ 1997-01-25 16:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
Steven L. Baur writes:
>May I respectfully request that the c) atchup command in the *Summary*
>buffer use yes-or-no-p instead of y-or-n-p?
>
>Yes, I just destroyed another nnml group by typing `cd ' in XEmacs
>when I thought an xterm had keyboard focus :-(.
This should be customizable. W3 has a variable for controlling what
yes-or-no type function should be used for prompts. By defaults it is
yes-or-no-p, but can be changed to anything with the same calling
semantics.
-bp
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* Re: Catchup command request
1997-01-25 8:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
@ 1997-01-26 19:50 ` Steven L Baur
1997-01-27 6:00 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Steven L Baur @ 1997-01-26 19:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:
> Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
>> May I respectfully request that the c) atchup command in the *Summary*
>> buffer use yes-or-no-p instead of y-or-n-p?
>>
>> Yes, I just destroyed another nnml group by typing `cd ' in XEmacs
>> when I thought an xterm had keyboard focus :-(.
> Can't you just press `M-C-_' in the group buffer to undo the change?
Um, I didn't know about that command. Thanks. It undoes more than
just the last catchup, but it's better than the alternative.
I still think it should be made harder to hit catchup since y-or-n-p
is so stupid (SPC as a synonym for `y' is unfortunate).
> (That is, if undoing has started working now. It hasn't been tested
> much, and I suspect that's because not many people are aware of the
> command...
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* Re: Catchup command request
1997-01-26 19:50 ` Steven L Baur
@ 1997-01-27 6:00 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 1997-01-27 6:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
> Um, I didn't know about that command. Thanks. It undoes more than
> just the last catchup, but it's better than the alternative.
Uhm... Oh, the undo boundary is set in `post-command-hook' in the
group buffer, but when you just read a bunch of groups without doing
anything in the group buffer, the boundary will never be set. Fix in
Gnus v5.4.4.
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larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen
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* Re: Catchup command request
1997-01-25 7:26 Catchup command request Steven L Baur
1997-01-25 8:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-01-25 16:36 ` William M. Perry
@ 1997-01-27 19:46 ` Karl Anderson
1997-01-27 20:57 ` Steven L Baur
2 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Karl Anderson @ 1997-01-27 19:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
steve@miranova.com (Steven L. Baur) wrote:
>May I respectfully request that the c) atchup command in the *Summary*
>buffer use yes-or-no-p instead of y-or-n-p?
You could overload y-or-n-p with yes-or-no-p in your .emacs if you
don't mind using the latter all the time.
karla@celtech.com Karl Anderson <URL:http://www.reed.edu/~karl>
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* Re: Catchup command request
1997-01-27 19:46 ` Karl Anderson
@ 1997-01-27 20:57 ` Steven L Baur
1997-01-27 21:50 ` David Moore
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From: Steven L Baur @ 1997-01-27 20:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
Karl Anderson writes:
> steve@miranova.com (Steven L. Baur) wrote:
>> May I respectfully request that the c) atchup command in the *Summary*
>> buffer use yes-or-no-p instead of y-or-n-p?
> You could overload y-or-n-p with yes-or-no-p in your .emacs if you
> don't mind using the latter all the time.
I do mind, it's not the right solution.
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* Re: Catchup command request
1997-01-27 20:57 ` Steven L Baur
@ 1997-01-27 21:50 ` David Moore
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From: David Moore @ 1997-01-27 21:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
> I do mind, it's not the right solution.
What I wouldn't give for emacs to notice that I'm typing shell
commands obviously meant for another window into my Gnus sessions.
Can we get this put on the millenium gnus todo list? ;-)
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