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bug#38785: 26.3; `y-or-n-p' leaves prompt and response in echo area
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Andreas Schwab |
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bug#38785: 26.3; `y-or-n-p' leaves prompt and response in echo area |
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Sun, 29 Dec 2019 15:29:00 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
On Dez 29 2019, Drew Adams wrote:
>> > I think `y-or-n-p' should probably just use
>> > `(sit-for 1)' after it shows the prompt + answer,
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>> That would always delay the caller of y-or-n-p by one
>> second. I'm pretty sure that would be highly annoying.
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> 1. Not always delay. It's sit-for, not sleep-for,
That doesn't make it any better. It introduces latency, and latency is
very annoying, prone to induce errors.
Andreas.
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