Subject: Re: bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 21:26:38 +0200

> From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 20:44:51 +0200
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>,
>  "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
> 
> +** New variable 'use-short-answers' to use 'y-or-n-p' instead of 'yes-or-no-p'.
> +This relieves of the need to define an alias that maps one to another
> +in the init file.

is this only about y-or-n-p vs yes-or-no-p?  Or do we expect to use
this variable for other answers?  In the former case, perhaps the name
of the variable should include "yes-or-no" somewhere, since
"use-short-answers" sounds too general to hint on its use, IMO.