>>>>> "Gijs" == Gijs Hillenius <g...@hillenius.net> writes:

Gijs> On 13 Feb 2015, Christian Lynbech wrote:
>> There is admittedly a rather small annoyance, but I wondered if
>> somebody has some kind of solution.
>> 
>> My problem is the following: When I read mail in gnus, I tend to focus
>> my attention on the summary and article buffers, going through my
>> mails type SPC or 'n'. If BBDB detects some changes, it will alert me
>> by posing an y/n question in the minibuffer, but as I am not looking
>> there, I don't notice and type 'n' again (to go to the next mail) thus
>> answering the question negatively which may or may not have been what
>> I wanted that answer to be.
>> 
>> I am sure I can turn off the questions in various ways, but I would
>> actually rather find out and make a conscious decision. In other
>> words, it would be great if I could either get BBDB to work harder to
>> grab my attention or not use y/n but rather yes/no or something
>> completely different like k/l to avoid the overlap with some common
>> gnus movement commands.

Gijs> You checked the value of yes-or-no-p?  perhaps you switched that off for
Gijs> BBDB or for all of Emacs

I am afraid I do not quite understand the question. yes-or-no-p is a
function, but I suspect (haven't checked) that BBDB for that particular
functionality uses the function y-or-n-p so this is not just a matter of
setting some variable.

                              -- Christian

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