From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: message's docstring Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:36:10 -0700 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <85r6w9ynpl.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163443263 10326 80.91.229.2 (13 Nov 2006 18:41:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:41:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 13 19:41:01 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gjgir-0001h0-GJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:39:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gjgiq-0001ZE-SU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:39:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gjgie-0001YP-Kw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:39:44 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gjgid-0001XE-1j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:39:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gjgic-0001XA-S5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:39:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1Gjgic-0005vu-Mm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:39:42 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GjghK-0001Ra-Hw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:38:22 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:38:22 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:38:22 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) In-Reply-To: <85r6w9ynpl.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:62230 Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: > "Juanma Barranquero" writes: >> 2) The docstring doesn't mention that the message is returned. >> However, several modules do rely on it (files.el, for example, has >> "(y-or-n-p (message ...))". > > That sounds nonsensical. Shouldn't this be > (y-or-n-p (format ...)) > instead? Perhaps the author wanted the prompt to be recorded in the *Messages* buffer. -- Kevin