From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/65964 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: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:09:16 +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 1197666824 8601 80.91.229.12 (14 Dec 2007 21:13:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:13:44 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M14458@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Dec 14 22:13:47 2007 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 1J3Hqj-0000ET-Nd for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:13:38 +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 1J3HqH-0002ab-Cq; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:13:09 -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 1J3HqG-0002aP-9l for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:13:08 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1J3HqA-0007Wm-6l for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:13:08 -0600 Original-Received: from mail.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.1.11]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1J3Hq8-0006tu-00 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:13:00 +0100 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.41.37]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id lBELCxJY018591 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:13:00 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from localhost (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.41.37]) by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9264E12CBB for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:12:59 +0100 (CET) X-Face: /U7=m^"/-Dn61mAl{g9e3>\G5Tp,oEX|V)g2I1hBk\ML;)7A?6cmB-y7y?'NA^J<=oz7syB =(McAwIHgLX!.B?R3X}98d@?>CrT094KLWh]WU4gDpnL/")MS(XoQTv`Oq225uL>+;CpPXo$N5e>N> $tPd-gbB^F{gQS#1ase]XO~D4p4M"3+F-7~u]dy3I?Pb8RO*H-EFeWDUf?Rf,d]pv\Jvh2Cht!A=im yKAS2Z%Ao^;}W/qzMvMm Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Reiner Steib's message of "Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:24:48 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DCC-HP_X86_64_8CPU-Metrics: poseidon 1245; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:65964 Archived-At: 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. Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/