Re: Confused by y-or-n-p

[martin rudalics]

>    > However, according to Wikipedia, modal dialogues are used
>
>    >    "to command user awareness and to display emergency states"
>
>    > inherently contradicting what we say above.  Maybe I'm the only one who
>    > sees a contradiction here.
>
> Emacs does not fit Wikipedia's general statement,
> but I don't see that it ought to fit.
>
> The idea of y-or-n-p and yes-or-no-p is that for less important
> questions, where saying yes by mistake is not so bad, you can answer
> in one character.  When more confirmation should be required, we use
> yes-or-no-p so you must answer with four characters.
>
> It just happened that the former was easy to do by reading an event and
> the only easy way to do the latter was with a minibuffer.  So the
> former turned out to be "modal" and the latter turned out not to be.
>
> But I don't see that that matters particularly.

It could have helped to establish guidelines for asking questions in a
more consistent and less adhocish way.  But since Eli here asked for an
option to restore some previous behavior only, I won't insist further.

martin