Subject: Re: bug#9557: 24.0.50; "y-or-n-p" does not clear the echo area

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 06:02:08 -0400

> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:43:41 +0200
> From: Dani Moncayo <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> The question is: from an user POV, is there a way to achieve the
> behavior I want (short answers), without the "residual text" problem?

If you really don't want to see your response, write your own function
that calls y-or-n-p, clears the echo area (by displaying an empty
message), then returns the value returned by y-or-n-p.