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Steven L. Baur writes:
>May I respectfully request that the c) atchup command in the *Summary*
>buffer use yes-or-no-p instead of y-or-n-p?
>
>Yes, I just destroyed another nnml group by typing `cd ' in XEmacs
>when I thought an xterm had keyboard focus :-(.

  This should be customizable.  W3 has a variable for controlling what
yes-or-no type function should be used for prompts.  By defaults it is
yes-or-no-p, but can be changed to anything with the same calling
semantics.

-bp