emacs-super-duper-yes-or-no

Replace the yes-or-no function with an even more demanding yes or no prompt, rather than with y-or-n.
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      1 Replace yes-or-no with super-duper-yes-or-no.
      2 
      3 * About:
      4 
      5 Copying from [[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2023-09/msg00129.html][the mailing list post for now]] (random case toggle prompt now works):
      6 
      7 People often alias yes-or-no with y-or-n, which is a less demanding
      8 confirmation function.
      9 
     10 I thought, hey, what about aliasing yes-or-no with something even more
     11 demanding to avoid confirming stuff accidentally?
     12 
     13 I had a few ideas which I plan on implementing:
     14 
     15 One idea (Google's Gmail's Drunk Mode) is to ask the user to solve a
     16 small arithmetic problem, which I haven't yet implemented.
     17 
     18 Another idea given by a friend was to prompt something like this with
     19 randomly capitalised letters:
     20 
     21 #+begin_src elisp
     22 "If yOU undERstanD what you'rE doing, enter the capitalized letters here:"
     23 #+end_src
     24 
     25 What I did do is write a function which asks the user to write a
     26 sequence of randomly selected words from a wordlist in order to
     27 confirm, and another to decline. [1] Right now it only uses a dummy
     28 wordlist, but I have also written another package which provides a
     29 selection of publicly known wordlists, which the first package would
     30 be dependent on.
     31 
     32 The wordlist package [2] bundles publicly known worslists such as the
     33 Diceware wordlists and the EFF wordlists.  I took the original files
     34 as they are from those projects, and produce vectors of strings, each
     35 vector is a wordlist.
     36 
     37 It might just be my horrid code, but it takes a noticeable amount of
     38 time to produce the vectors.  How should I cache the results of the
     39 wordlist producing functions?
     40 
     41 Another concern is that this solution takes a lot of memory?  Could I
     42 make this dependency optional in the super-duper-yes-or-no package?
     43 
     44 This is partly an exercise in learning Emacs Lisp, but maybe someone
     45 would find it useful?
     46 
     47 p.s. I haven't yet created their https://sr.ht/ homes, so they are
     48 still only up on https://codeberg.org/
     49 
     50 [1]: <https://codeberg.org/yuvallangerontheroad/super-duper-yes-or-no>
     51 [2]: <https://codeberg.org/yuvallangerontheroad/emacs-wordlists>
     52 
     53 * Installation:
     54 
     55 1. Download super-duper-yes-or-no.el.
     56 2. Run src_text{M-x package-install-file <RET> /path/to/superduper-yes-or-no.el <RET>}.
     57 3. Add src_elisp{(require 'super-duper-yes-or-no)} to your src_text{~/.config/emacs/init.el}.
     58 
     59 * Usage:
     60 
     61 
     62 - To replace yes-or-no-p with random sequences of words:
     63 
     64 #+begin_src elisp
     65   (defalias 'yes-or-no-p
     66     'super-duper-yes-or-no-yes-or-no-words-p)
     67 #+end_src
     68 
     69 - To replace yes-or-no-p with uppercase letters hunts:
     70 
     71 #+begin_src elisp
     72   (defalias 'yes-or-no-p
     73     'super-duper-yes-or-no-yes-or-no-toggle-case-p)
     74 #+end_src
     75 
     76 - To replace yes-or-no-p with arithmetic problems:
     77 
     78 #+begin_src elisp
     79   (defalias 'yes-or-no-p
     80     'super-duper-yes-or-no-yes-or-no-arithmetic-problem-p)
     81 #+end_src
     82 
     83 * Todo:
     84 ** Add proper wordlists, like Diceware's or EFF's.
     85 *** There is one on the [[https://codeberg.org/yuvallangerontheroad/emacs-wordlists][codeberg mirror]] for now, but on its home at [[https://git.sr.ht/~kakafarm/emacs-wordlist/][source hut]] eventually.