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Re: `y-or-n-p' does not wait for input - assumes `n'


From: Kim F. Storm
Subject: Re: `y-or-n-p' does not wait for input - assumes `n'
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 22:16:55 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     The second way to interpret it is that the functions in
>     `custom-variable-menu' should be executed with track-mouse bound to
>     nil, and if they need to track the mouse, they have to simply rebind
>     it to t once more.
>
> I think that is the right approach.  It makes things work the way
> one would normally expect.

Wouldn't it be better to fix this in C code so other potential uses of
y-or-n-p and yes-or-no-p during track-mouse do not need to be fixed
as well ?

E.g. what if the undo-overflow question we are discussing in abother
thread is asked while track-mouse is non-nil ?

-- 
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk





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