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

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 22:47:05 +0300
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>>      address@hidden, address@hidden,
>>      address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
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>> > From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
>> > Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 20:39:22 +0200
>> > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>> >    address@hidden, address@hidden,
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>> > 
>> > >> Reliable translation into selection boxes when feeding emacs -batch from
>> > >> a script?
>> > >
>> > > y-or-n-p already does TRT in that case (no dialog boxes in -batch).
>> > 
>> > Feeding emacs -batch _from_ a script.  Meaning the script supplies "yes"
>> > and "no".
>> 
>> That already works, AFAIK.
>
> I meant it already works if the script supplies "y" or "n", not
> literally "yes" and "no".

Let me guess: you checked after posting your reply and followed up (in
overlap to my reply to the original reply).  It hardly makes sense that
you indeed meant it at the time of writing:

>
>> "why" is phonetically the same as "y".  Which means that it's likely
>> harder to generate just "y" from voice than "yes".
>
> Then it should work already.

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David Kastrup