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

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

>>>>> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 19 2007, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:

>>> So, I strongly oppose to making `gnus-y-or-n-p' alias to `y-or-n-p'
>>> or removing `gnus-y-or-n-p'.

>> Try `c' and `n' in the group buffer.

> You mean `c' for `gnus-group-catchup-current' or
> `gnus-topic-catchup-articles' and answering `n' to the y-or-n-p
> prompt?

Yes, I did.

> What I see in the echo area is:

> - c --> Mark all unread articles in ulm.test as read? (y or n)

> - n --> Mark all unread articles in ulm.test as read? (y or n) n

>   ... i.e. the response "n" stays there until you hit some other key
>   (e.g. `p', `n', ...).

> I fail to see anything wrong here.

Hm, but if the function to query is `yes-or-no-p', the echo area
is cleared just after entering `n o <RET>'.  I think that that
`y-or-n-p' leaves the question and the answer in the echo area
is not intentional.  If anything, we may call it a bug.