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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,
	"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : Re: master 7f53446: Doc fix for y-or-n-p; trailing space is no longer needed
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 16:12:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR10MB5488BA739AFCBD6DB7BF91F3F3F59@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mt6yi8qe.fsf@gmail.com>

>     >> (but `yes-or-no-p' should be fixed to add a space if there
>     >> isnʼt one).
> 
>     Drew> I'm not following this thread, so apologies if
>     Drew> my comment is irrelevant or misguided.
> 
> If you were, your comments would have been shorter

If I were what?

> - `y-or-n-p' has, since emacs 24.3 or so, appended a space to the prompt
>   if there wasnʼt one
> - `yes-or-no-p' doesnʼt mess with the prompt
> 
> This discussion is about the documentation of those two facts, which
> needs adjusting since itʼs currently incorrect. 

Oh, it's the _doc_ that needs adjusting to those facts?
OK, then.  So no change in the _behavior_ is being
considered.

> There was a suggestion by me to maybe align `yes-or-no-p'
> behaviour (what you call "dwim") to match `y-or-n-p',
> but since thatʼs 'legacy' I doubt itʼs going to be done.

OK, so nothing is changing, apparently.  Sorry for the noise.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-04 16:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20210916073852.6025.85941@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20210916073853.B90BA20ABE@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2023-01-03 14:31   ` master 7f53446: Doc fix for y-or-n-p; trailing space is no longer needed Robert Pluim
2023-01-03 15:33     ` Stefan Kangas
2023-01-03 15:59       ` Robert Pluim
2023-01-04  8:43       ` Jean Louis
2023-01-04 10:10         ` Robert Pluim
2023-01-04 15:53           ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2023-01-04 16:07             ` Robert Pluim
2023-01-04 16:12               ` Drew Adams [this message]
2023-01-04 16:14                 ` Robert Pluim
2023-01-04 17:31               ` Eli Zaretskii

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