Re: Confused by y-or-n-p

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > There are two orthogonal issues here: Whether to enable recursive
  > > minibuffers and whether to allow leaving the minibuffer window while
  > > asking a 'y-or-n-p' question.  The above addresses the latter only.

  > Isn't that enough to solve the problem which started this thread?

No.  It would prevent some of the secondary confusion.  But the basic
confusion came from getting out of the y-or-n-p question.

I'd like to have all those commands, which read one-character answers,
use the old code and give exactly the old behavior.

A little while ago I found that my minibuffer was displaying

  Unsent message being composed, erase it? (y or n)

and I had no recollection of why.  Nor was it easy to make it go away.
Sure, I could have done it with C-], but C-] does not come to mind
when I see that.  I expect to answer y or n, but that doesn't work
when the minibuffer is not selected.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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