Re: Confused by y-or-n-p

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Would it make sense to add a user option to disallow switching from
> the minibuffer in the middle of y-or-n-p?  Then people who get
> confused by this could set it to avoid the confusion.

Yes, I think that makes sense (and as Stefan says, this should also work
for the other char-reading functions that we've switched over).

However, I do think it's likely that people who've switched this new
user option on will find themselves in situations where they'll be going
"but this time I do want to switch to another buffer".  Would adding a
new keystroke for switch-from-the-minibuffer-even-if-I-don't-usually-want-to
make sense?  Bound to some complicate keystroke people are unlikely to
hit by mistake?

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