Re: message's docstring

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

"Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:

> Two slight inconsistencies/problems in message's docstring:
>
> 1) It says:
>
> DEFUN ("message", Fmessage, Smessage, 1, MANY, 0,
>       doc: /* Print a one-line message at the bottom of the screen.
>
> Why "a one-line message"? There's nothing stopping
>
>  (message "line 1\nline 2")
>
> for working, or even
>
>  (message "%s\n%s" "line1" "line2")
>
> 2) The docstring doesn't mention that the message is returned.
> However, several modules do rely on it (files.el, for example, has
> "(y-or-n-p (message ...))".

That sounds nonsensical.  Shouldn't this be
(y-or-n-p (format ...))
instead?

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