Re: continue automatically despite y/n prompt?

[Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>]

On Thu Jun 21 2001 at 13:35, wmperry@gnu.org (William M. Perry) said:

    > Bill White <billw@wolfram.com> writes:
    > 
>> When I'm out of the office for the day I like to do this:
>> 
>>    (gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-demon-scan-mail 5 1)
>> 
>> which automatically retrieves email from various pop accounts,
>> which are set up like this:
    > 
    > What about something like:
    > 
    > (defun ignore-prompts-scan-mail ()
    >   (let ((orig-ynp (symbol-function 'y-or-n-p)))
    >     (unwind-protect
    > 	(progn
    > 	  (fset 'y-or-n-p (lambda (&rest args) t))
    > 	  (gnus-demon-scan-mail))
    >       (fset 'y-or-n-p orig-ynp))))
    > 
    > And use that as your handler?

Well that looks cool - I'll give it a try over the weekend.

Thanks!

bw
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