From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/66060 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Katsumi Yamaoka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Do we need gnus-yes-or-no-p and gnus-y-or-n-p? Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 09:21:37 +0900 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199578958 3238 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2008 00:22:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 00:22:38 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M14553@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Jan 06 01:22:59 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JBJHx-0001pg-C4 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:22:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JBJH0-0007dh-RV; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:21:54 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JBJGy-0007dL-1a for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:21:52 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JBJGw-0000SL-Ot for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:21:51 -0600 Original-Received: from washington.hostforweb.net ([66.225.201.13]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1JBJGw-00082f-00 for ; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:21:51 +0100 Original-Received: from [218.118.2.103] (port=62199 helo=) by washington.hostforweb.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JBJGp-0002Rb-S6 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:21:45 -0600 X-Face: #kKnN,xUnmKia.'[pp`;Omh}odZK)?7wQSl"4o04=EixTF+V[""w~iNbM9ZL+.b*_CxUmFk B#Fu[*?MZZH@IkN:!"\w%I_zt>[$nm7nQosZ<3eu;B:$Q_:p!',P.c0-_Cy[dz4oIpw0ESA^D*1Lw= L&i*6&( User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mH7nNKj3r4yawGMXrHmCG4Ze/O4= X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - washington.hostforweb.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnus.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - jpl.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:66060 Archived-At: >>>>> Reiner Steib 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 '. 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.