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Use short answers

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 46594 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: bug#46594: [External] : bug#46594: Use short answers
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 22:27:49 +0200

> From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
> Cc: drew.adams <at> oracle.com,  larsi <at> gnus.org,  46594 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 21:49:19 +0200
> 
> >> +** 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.
> 
> This is not only about about y-or-n-p/yes-or-no-p.  It also affects
> the function 'read-answer' and its option 'read-answer-short'.

Then why neither NEWS nor the doc string mention those other APIs?

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