From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 36989@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36989: 26.2; Doc string of `y-or-n-p': say it returns nil if answer is not `y' or `DEL'
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2019 13:26:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85blwy2qtf.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8b912ab4-fceb-47ef-9fec-7ef16fa7d102@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 9 Aug 2019 10:20:37 -0700 (PDT)")
notfound 36989 26.2
found 36989 24.5
tags 36989 fixed
close 36989 25.1
quit
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> Did you miss where it says:
>> Return t if answer is "y" and nil if it is "n".
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> No, I didn't miss it, because it's not in the Emacs release
> I reported on (the latest release, AFAIK): Emacs 26.2.
I don't think you are looking at the docstring from Emacs 26.2.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/subr.el?h=emacs-26.2#n2507
> Ask user a "y or n" question. Return t if answer is "y".
That seems to be the docstring from 24.5.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/subr.el?h=emacs-24.5#n2212
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-09 16:44 bug#36989: 26.2; Doc string of `y-or-n-p': say it returns nil if answer is not `y' or `DEL' Drew Adams
2019-08-09 17:02 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-08-09 17:20 ` Drew Adams
2019-08-09 17:26 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2019-08-09 17:32 ` Drew Adams
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