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Message #8 received at 46594 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 46594 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46594: Use short answers
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 16:13:34 +0100

Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:

> As discussed in
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-12/msg01915.html
> here is an option that accomplishes the mapping of
> (defalias 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)

Makes sense to me -- having a variable instead of this extremely common
defalias is better design.

> This is a related option, but I'm not sure if it should be mentioned
> in the docstring.  Maybe a simple reference should be sufficient?

I think mentioning it in the `yes-or-no-p' doc string would be good.

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