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

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Sun, Jan 06 2008, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:

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

Maybe, maybe not.  I could imagine that it is intentional: In contrast
to yes-or-no-p it is much easier to type y, n, SPC, DEL, etc
accidentally, so it might be useful for the user to see what he has
typed.

Do you or anyone have real life examples (in Gnus) where leaving the
message in the echo area after `(gnus-)y-or-n-p' is confusing?

> If anything, we may call it a bug.

If so, it would be a general bug in (X)Emacs and should be fixed
there, not in Gnus, IMHO.

Would you like to ask if it's intentional on emacs-devel/xemacs-beta?

Bye, Reiner.
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