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From: Gabriele Nicolardi <gabriele@medialab.sissa.it>
To: 71429@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#71429: Inconsistent y-or-n-p prompt behavior in Emacs Lisp
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2024 09:03:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0a72f9c4-3f1c-4fc8-a412-169dca892b57@medialab.sissa.it> (raw)

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Hi,
I have the following Emacs Lisp code:

|(progn (y-or-n-p "Test: ") (let ((search-spaces-regexp 
"\\(?:\\n?[\s\t]+\\|\n\\)?")) (y-or-n-p "Test: "))) |

The first prompt from the |y-or-n-p| function appears as expected:

|Test: (y or n) |

However, the second prompt appears differently:

|Test: (‘y’ or ‘n’) |

I’m trying to understand why the second prompt format changes. What 
causes this inconsistency in the |y-or-n-p| prompt?

I suspect it might be related to the |search-spaces-regexp| variable or 
how Emacs handles interactive prompts, but I’m not sure. Any insights or 
explanations would be greatly appreciated!

Best regards,

Gabriele Nicolardi

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             reply	other threads:[~2024-06-08  7:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-06-08  7:03 Gabriele Nicolardi [this message]
2024-06-08  8:24 ` bug#71429: Inconsistent y-or-n-p prompt behavior in Emacs Lisp Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-08  9:20   ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-08 13:59     ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-08 14:58       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-08 15:30         ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-08 15:38         ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-08 16:36           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-08 17:41             ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-08 18:08               ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-09 11:02                 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-06-08 15:47         ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-08 16:44           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-09 11:01             ` Stefan Kangas

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