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mdespuits / dotify

A CLI Tool for managing your dotfiles.
http://mattdbridges.github.com/dotify
MIT License
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Meaning of [Yn] #11

Closed chriskempson closed 12 years ago

chriskempson commented 12 years ago

I've just spent a couple of hours trying to figure out why when presented with the prompt Do you want to link [file] to Dotify? [Yn] and hitting enter, no link was made, no message was given.

Turns out you have to type Y and then hit enter. I'm hoping this is a bug and not the intended way it should work?

mdespuits commented 12 years ago

@chriskempson This is the intended way it should work. Unfortunately, I do not have control over this behavior as the user dialogue in dotify's tasks are powered by thor. Since it requires an answer to be pass a true value to the conditional being given, hitting the enter key does not do this.

I have done some digging around in thor and it seems that this is the desired behavior. See the yes? method to get a better idea.

However, the part about no message being given is important. I had that in place in a previous version and somehow it got lost/dropped. I need to add that back in to the next version for better usability. Thanks!

chriskempson commented 12 years ago

Thanks very much for the explanation. Maybe the message could be changed to [y/n] the '/' may help indicate itls one or the other whereas a capital letter can often denote a default choice should nothing be entered.

Anyway, glad to hear there's a message coming back, that will certainly help!

mdespuits commented 12 years ago

That is a very good point. I had not considered that the capital might be the default option. I will be making that change in a future release.