Yes/No Pedantic Patch

[Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]]

This is going to sound silly but, I actually prefer typing "yes" rather than
"y".

Does that mean I am weird?? :X

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Markus Friedl <mfriedl at gmail.com> wrote:

> no, i don't want to make it easier to say "yes" here. only harder.
>
> -m
>
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Joshua Teitelbaum <joshuat at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello developers.
> > I have made a yes/no 'pedantic' patch that affects how ssh command line
> and
> > other agents that employ yes/no prompts interpret results.
> >
> > The nature of the patch is the following:
> > When prompted with things like:
> > ----SNIP----
> > ./ssh  localhost
> > The authenticity of host 'localhost (127.0.0.1)' can't be established.
> > RSA key fingerprint is 36:f3:12:f4:20:5b:a5:22:31:01:d7:a8:5e:88:93:a3.
> > Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?
> > ----SNIP----
> >
> > Mr Jeffery Paul (sneak) thought it would be nice to just be able to type
> 'y'
> > or 'n' respectively in lieu of the full yes/no.
> > The patch I made affords yes/no prompts to be answered with single
> character
> > y/n behavior as the default while affording both a new command line
> option
> > -E and config file option y_n_pedantic 0|1to preserve the long form.
> >
> > May I send someone the patch I made for review?
> > Is this a good idea?
> >
> > In closing I love ssh.
> > The world does.
> > Jeffrey Paul does, but he's terse :)
> >
> >
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