From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/66061 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib 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 10:25:28 +0100 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199611623 5212 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2008 09:27:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 09:27:03 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M14554@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Jan 06 10:27:25 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 1JBRmq-0005BO-On for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:27:21 +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 1JBRlV-0001SO-Ru; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:25:57 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JBRlS-0001S4-Vg for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:25:55 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JBRlR-0002IG-Gy for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:25:54 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1JBRlR-0007WD-00 for ; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:25:53 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JBRlO-0002kR-Au for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 09:25:50 +0000 Original-Received: from hsi-kbw-085-216-076-228.hsi.kabelbw.de ([85.216.76.228]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 09:25:50 +0000 Original-Received: from Reiner.Steib by hsi-kbw-085-216-076-228.hsi.kabelbw.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 09:25:50 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: hsi-kbw-085-216-076-228.hsi.kabelbw.de X-Face: .*T0'iU(sujq_j9\J>-d4fg;N/1++U#U$_5ii6k.=|"-n'?5O:Hyz&wi'-!I~,}7~GgT=0S /&-R5sbkNy5+Xo1y{Tw2KKxi@Xh"g@]Qc|.U<*]WDd)qvGowFDvfU1F]{EDho:7P0@|oOD=Bc{K4?> WP68K[Mx:}=`ZT'6g4'f+g?;`vri2!)xGy}3:=l'(/Cea0l4lo^H5#@/Z3ev Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:T/5yIbSYTY41ZlP7kyqha7v9zEU= X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:66061 Archived-At: On Sun, Jan 06 2008, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote: >>>>>> Reiner Steib 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 '. 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. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/