Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 11:23:17 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
> Cc: Kaushal Modi <address@hidden>, emacs-devel <address@hidden>,
>         Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>,
>         Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>
> 
> FWIW, I agree with both Eli and those who want the regression fixed.
> 
> 1. Each place such a prompting function is used, we should pick
> the right function.  If `yes-or-no-p' is not right for a given
> occurrence, and `y-or-n-p' is right, then let's fix that.
> 
> 2. User preferences vary.  Some users never want to respond to
> a `yes-or-no-p' prompt.  That's their choice.  It should be easy
> for them to express their choice and have Emacs respect it.

I agree completely, and hope that just doing (1) correctly will be
enough.  But if (1) is not enough, then I think we should fix the rest
of the use cases via a user option that redirects yes-or-no-p to
y-or-n-p.  Requesting us to drag on with supporting such defaliases is
an unjustified maintenance burden.