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Please consider allowing a help character, such as `?' or `C-h', to give users more info about y/n prompting - info that might help with this user's confusion (maybe some info such as that offered by NickD's answer). Consider, in particular, the context of hitting a key for a disabled command (the OP's context), and seeing the Help text for dealing with disabled commands, including a link that is impossible to access while in the y/n read. In GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2019-08-29 built on CIRROCUMULUS Repository revision: 96dd0196c28bc36779584e47fffcca433c9309cd Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.19044