Subject: Re: bug#28525: 26.0.60; dired-delete-file: Accept y/n if yes-or-no-p is aliased to y-or-n-p

From: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 13:10:06 +0200

Tino Calancha <[email-masked]> writes:

> Even if we ignore this issue, the existance of a `questionp'
> which ask a question and allow more than 2 answers
> (and returns a symbol, easy to check in a `cond' block) might be
> a useful addition; this is quite general and avoid the need to use
> `read-string' in cases where the programmer prefers a symbol.

FWIW there is already something very similar in subr-x:
`read-multiple-choice'.  That one is controlled with keys, however.

Michael.