Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Any objections to removing yes-or-no-p (with a defalias for backward
>> compatibility, of course) and making y-or-n-p serve both duties,
>> controlled by some defcustom?
>
> I don't object to moving yes-or-no-p to Elisp and/or to share code
> between yes-or-no-p and y-or-n-p, but the default behavior of Emacs
> should still be that yes-or-no-p uses the minibuffer and requires the
> user to type something like `y e s RET' while y-or-n-p is satisfied with
> a simple `y' or `SPC'.

Difficult since y-or-n-p allows scrolling the current window while using
the echo area for its prompt, and yes-or-no-p instead gives you a full
minibuffer entry as the current window.

-- 
David Kastrup