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Inconsistent y-or-n-p prompt behavior in Emacs Lisp

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: gabriele <at> medialab.sissa.it, 71429 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stephen.berman <at> gmx.net, stefankangas <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#71429: Inconsistent y-or-n-p prompt behavior in Emacs Lisp
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2024 21:08:29 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: stephen.berman <at> gmx.net,  gabriele <at> medialab.sissa.it,
>   stefankangas <at> gmail.com,  71429 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2024 13:41:14 -0400
> 
> > Or maybe you are saying that a Lisp program that binds
> > search-spaces-regexp has a bug, because Lisp code is not supposed to
> > bind that?
> 
> That, yes. Binding it should be done carefully only at those places
> where the contained Lisp code is performing a search whose regexp was
> built from interactive user input.
> 
> If you let bind that var and then call arbitrary code, I'd
> expect breakage.

OK, thanks.  So I now added the above caveat to the ELisp manual, and
I'm closing this bug.

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