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bug#29313: Replace gnus-yes-or-no-p with yes-or-no-p?
From: |
Eric Abrahamsen |
Subject: |
bug#29313: Replace gnus-yes-or-no-p with yes-or-no-p? |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Nov 2017 18:11:04 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Gnus has the following defined:
>>
>> (defun gnus-y-or-n-p (prompt)
>> (prog1
>> (y-or-n-p prompt)
>> (message "")))
>>
>> (defun gnus-yes-or-no-p (prompt)
>> (prog1
>> (yes-or-no-p prompt)
>> (message "")))
>>
>> I wonder if I'm missing something here: for the life of me I can't see
>> how the behavior is different from the built-ins. The built-ins don't
>> put anything in the minibuffer, why would we'd have to blank it? Is this
>> historical?
>
> They put the prompt in the minibuffer, don't they? (not sure why it's
> important to blank that out though)
Oh! The prompt is *left* in the minibuffer. Of course I figure that out
moments after making the bug report.
Well, at least the functions actually *do* something. Whether that's
worth doing is another question, but I'll leave it for now.