Re: Do we need gnus-yes-or-no-p and gnus-y-or-n-p?

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

>>>>> Reiner Steib wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 29 2007, Reiner Steib wrote:

>> do we really need gnus-yes-or-no-p and gnus-y-or-n-p?
>>
>> They are there since almost forever. From the comment, I'd guess it
>> could have been a workaround for a bug in the corresponding Emacs
>> functions.
>>
>> ,----[ 3.1          (larsi    04-Mar-97) ]
>>| ;; Two silly functions to ensure that all `y-or-n-p' questions clear
>>| ;; the echo area.
> [...]

> I defaliased them to the original Emacs functions.  If nobody
> complains after some time, we can get rid of the aliases and use the
> original functions.

Sorry for my lazy response.  I wish that a command like the
following clears a question out after I answer.

(defun foo ()
  "Switch to buffer named foo."
  (interactive)
  (when (y-or-n-p "Switch to buffer foo? ")
    (switch-to-buffer "foo")))

This should be fixed if it is considered to be a bug of Emacs,
and we will be able to remove `gnus-y-or-n-p' at last when Gnus
comes not to support the versions of Emacsen having the bug.  In
other words, if we don't use `gnus-y-or-n-p' we have to keep
having `(message "")' with `y-or-n-p' that doesn't follow a
function that clears or changes the echo area (minibuffer?)
until Gnus comes not to support buggy Emacsen.  I think.