From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, xemacs-beta@xemacs.org, ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Do we need gnus-yes-or-no-p and gnus-y-or-n-p?
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:16:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1JBva1-000528-VY@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4mabniw3cs.fsf@jpl.org> (message from Katsumi Yamaoka on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:34:43 +0900)
The behavior of `y-or-n-p' that it doesn't clear the question
and the answer is not serious of course, but I feel it is not
cool.
It is intentional.
Currently, it is commented out in the trunk by Reiner Steib. He
also wrote the benefit of leaving the question and the answer in
the echo area as follows:
(http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/66061)
> In contrast to yes-or-no-p it is much easier to type y, n,
> SPC, DEL, etc accidentally, so it might be useful for the user
> to see what he has typed.
Yes, that is the reason.
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2008-01-07 6:34 ` Do we need gnus-yes-or-no-p and gnus-y-or-n-p? Katsumi Yamaoka
2008-01-07 17:16 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2008-01-07 22:52 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2008-02-16 12:22 ` Reiner Steib
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