Re: Confused by y-or-n-p

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org,  rms@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 13:11:53 -0500
> 
> >> Maybe it could/should even apply to most uses of the minibuffer?
> >
> > Could be.  However, y-or-n-p is somewhat special, in that it allowed
> > only very restricted set of things to type.  By contrast
> > read-from-minibuffer always allowed switching out of the minibuffer.
> 
> So you're saying the only reason to treat `y-or-n-p` differently is to
> avoid surprising old users?

Old users who have the previous operation of y-or-n-p burned into
their muscle memory, yes.

> Fair enough, but IIRC `y-or-n-p` is not the only function we changed
> recently to use a minibuffer instead of an ad-hoc modal read-event loop,
> so I suspect we might want to apply this new option to those other
> functions as well.

I think you are right.