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28.2; Documentation for yes-or-no-p wrong/different between docstring and lispref

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 63399 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, tim <at> tim-landscheidt.de
Subject: bug#63399: 28.2; Documentation for yes-or-no-p wrong/different between docstring and lispref
Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 18:44:38 +0300

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
> Cc: tim <at> tim-landscheidt.de,  63399 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 16:57:17 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > But there's no difference if the prompt ends in a space.
> 
> Yes. It is just a convenience change, and there's code in the wild which
> doesn't use a trailing space in the propmpt, when calling
> yes-or-no-p. What would be wrong with my patch? I don't see that it
> hurts.

I'm sure something will come up.  It isn't an accident that we have
danced around this more than once in the past.

But if you insist, please install on master, and let's see whose gray
hair is more right...

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