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Replace gnus-yes-or-no-p with yes-or-no-p?

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: 29313 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29313: Replace gnus-yes-or-no-p with yes-or-no-p?
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 21:00:43 -0500

Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Gnus has the following defined:
>
> (defun gnus-y-or-n-p (prompt)
>   (prog1
>       (y-or-n-p prompt)
>     (message "")))
>     
> (defun gnus-yes-or-no-p (prompt)
>   (prog1
>       (yes-or-no-p prompt)
>     (message "")))
>
> I wonder if I'm missing something here: for the life of me I can't see
> how the behavior is different from the built-ins. The built-ins don't
> put anything in the minibuffer, why would we'd have to blank it? Is this
> historical?

They put the prompt in the minibuffer, don't they?  (not sure why it's
important to blank that out though)

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