I attach a patch for the function bibtex-reformat in lisp/textmodes/bibtex.el to avail of the function and flexibility of map-y-or-n-p instead of emulating it. If bug reports are not the preferable channel for such minor suggestions, please let me know what to do in the future. Thanks, -- Basil In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 13, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2018-01-03 built on thunk Repository revision: f8b4e87d5d4f57954b50677add76ce5136211dc1 Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11905000 System Description: Debian GNU/Linux testing (buster)