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From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
To: rms@gnu.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: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:52:00 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4m4pdp6ygf.fsf@jpl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1JBva1-000528-VY@fencepost.gnu.org

>>>>> Richard Stallman wrote:

> It is intentional.

Reiner> In contrast to yes-or-no-p it is much easier to type y, n,
Reiner> SPC, DEL, etc accidentally, so it might be useful for the user
Reiner> to see what he has typed.

> Yes, that is the reason.

Thanks for enlightening me.  This has dispelled my long-standing
doubt that the Lisp programs[1] that clear the echo area are few
except for the ones of Gnus (and emacs-w3m).  I agree with not
deleting on purpose the question and the answer that `y-or-n-p'
displays.  Though this doesn't mean changing my sense of beauty.
I.e., I don't like it.

[1] ediff-quit-meta-buffer, help-with-tutorial, mh-search-folder,
    dissociated-press, and c-submit-bug-report in Emacs.



  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-07 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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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
2008-01-07 22:52                     ` Katsumi Yamaoka [this message]
2008-02-16 12:22                       ` Reiner Steib

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