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diff --git a/modules/system-lib.el b/modules/system-lib.el index 54e20b74..bde53d82 100644 --- a/modules/system-lib.el +++ b/modules/system-lib.el @@ -130,16 +130,33 @@ Callers that must have a secret layer their own error on top." (secret (plist-get (car (apply #'auth-source-search spec)) :secret))) (if (functionp secret) (funcall secret) secret))) -;; ---------------------------- Strong Confirmation ---------------------------- - -(defun cj/confirm-strong (prompt) - "Ask PROMPT, requiring a full typed \"yes\" or \"no\" answer. -For irreversible actions -- file destruction, overwrites, power-off. The -global default makes `yes-or-no-p' a single keystroke (`use-short-answers' -is t); this binds it to nil for the one call so the prompt demands the -long-form answer, keeping a stray RET or space from confirming." - (let ((use-short-answers nil)) - (yes-or-no-p prompt))) +;; -------------------------- Destructive Confirmation ------------------------- + +(defun cj/confirm-destructive (prompt) + "Ask PROMPT for an irreversible action. Return non-nil for yes. + +One keystroke, y or n. Nothing else answers: a stray RET or space +re-prompts rather than confirming, so the accidental-confirm protection +survives without the answer costing four keystrokes. + +Pending input is discarded first, and that line is load-bearing. +`read-char-choice' reads from the input queue, so without it a keystroke +typed before the prompt appeared would confirm a shutdown or a file +deletion instantly. The typed-\"yes\" form this replaced absorbed such a +key harmlessly, and dropping the guard without replacing it would have +traded a rare annoyance for a rare catastrophe. + +This used to demand a typed \"yes\", and that was a worse trade than it +looked. On 2026-07-31 one such prompt went unanswered -- a second agent +session held the selected window while the prompt waited in another frame, +so keystrokes went to a terminal instead of the minibuffer, and the session +was killed with buffers unsaved. A single keystroke does not make a prompt +reachable when focus is elsewhere; C-g is still the escape either way. What +it changes is the cost of the situation, and losing unsaved buffers is a far +bigger hazard than a mis-keyed confirm." + (discard-input) + (eq ?y (downcase (read-char-choice (concat prompt "(y or n) ") + '(?y ?Y ?n ?N))))) (defun cj/--font-lock-global-modes-excluding (current mode) "Return CURRENT `font-lock-global-modes' with MODE added to the exclusion. |