Dan Jacobson wrote:

> Also, regarding the "^R to display the current buffer;" message
> itself. It must have been real early emacs. Don't put a real live ^R
> there, some of us cut and paste into gnus and then gnus tells us
> there's illegible text and we end up having to repair it on the
> outgoing spool as gnus wasn't forthcoming about where it was enough.
> A "^" . "R" is better, but "C-r" is more consistent.

I think the problem is actually in map-y-or-n-p: