GNU bug report logs - #71429
Inconsistent y-or-n-p prompt behavior in Emacs Lisp

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Message #46 received at 71429 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: gabriele <at> medialab.sissa.it, 71429 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#71429: Inconsistent y-or-n-p prompt behavior in Emacs Lisp
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2024 07:01:22 -0400

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> Since this effect of using a backslash is part of what
>> substitute-command-keys does (and it's commented there: ";; 1C. \`f' is
>> replaced with a fontified f."), would adding a comment to y-or-n-p be an
>> exception or would all callers of substitute-command-keys that use this
>> handling of the backslash also need to have such a comment?
>
> Not necessarily all the callers, but some definitely.  This is an
> unusual convention, which is mentioned in the doc string of
> substitute-command-keys, but not in the ELisp manual,

It is documented in (info "(elisp) Keys in Documentation").

See commit 1aef1a6673bc29784effe10d2e01e62b49c0112c and Bug#50804.

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