Subject: bug#13649: boobytrapped dired-do-async-shell-command question

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 May 2022 22:20:34 +0300

> From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Mon, 09 May 2022 21:42:40 +0300
> 
> >> BTW, (info "(emacs) Yes or No Prompts") says:
> >>
> >>      With both types of yes-or-no query the minibuffer behaves as
> >>   described in the previous sections; you can recenter the selected window
> >>   with ‘C-l’, scroll that window (‘C-v’ or ‘PageDown’ scrolls forward,
> >>   ‘M-v’ or ‘PageUp’ scrolls backward)
> >>
> >> But in fact ‘C-l’ doesn't scroll the window, ‘C-v’ and ‘PageDown’ don't
> >> scroll forward, and ‘M-v’ and ‘PageUp’ don't scroll backward.  Should they?
> >
> > They do here.  What did you try, exactly?
> 
> They do to some extent for y-or-n-p, but not at all for yes-or-no.

I actually tested with yes-or-no-p.

Again, would you tell what you tried and what happened, as opposed to
what you expected to happen?  I think there might be a
misunderstanding here.