bug#9557: 24.0.50; "y-or-n-p" does not clear the echo area

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:43:41 +0200
> From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
> Cc: 9557@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> The question is: from an user POV, is there a way to achieve the
> behavior I want (short answers), without the "residual text" problem?

If you really don't want to see your response, write your own function
that calls y-or-n-p, clears the echo area (by displaying an empty
message), then returns the value returned by y-or-n-p.