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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,  
> address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 11:14:13 +0200
> 
> > Any objections to removing yes-or-no-p (with a defalias for backward
> > compatibility, of course) and making y-or-n-p serve both duties,
> > controlled by some defcustom?
> 
> You mean, controlled by an optional argument?  With some defcustom for
> specifying the interpretation of the optional argument?

Yes, somethng like that.  But it's possible even without the optional
argument.

> Because otherwise you'll have a hard time retaining the current default
> behavior for emacs -Q.

Well, we could have one function bind the defcustom and then call the
other one.  Then we won't even need a defalias for backward
compatibility.