RE: emacs dired: unable to view deletion list

[Drew Adams]

> Thanks Drew. Found the problem. It is
> (defalias 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)
> though, odd it should be that way. This can be considered a bug?

You might report a usability bug, to see what the Emacs developers think.

My guess, without looking too far, is that this is because `y-or-n-p' reads a
key directly (using `read-key') and looks it up in keymap `query-replace-map'.
The key sequences `C-M-v' and `C-M-V' are not defined there, and it doesn't seem
to look beyond that map.  In that map it only handles certain keys (see the
`cond' in `y-or-n-p').

These are the keys available in the keymap:

,----
| query-replace-map
| -----------------
| 
| Keymap that defines the responses to questions in `query-replace'.
| The "bindings" in this map are not commands; they are answers.
| The valid answers include `act', `skip', `act-and-show',
| `exit', `act-and-exit', `edit', `delete-and-edit', `recenter',
| `automatic', `backup', `exit-prefix', and `help'.
| 
| key             binding
| ---             -------
| 
| C-g           quit
| C-h           help
| C-l           recenter
| RET           exit
| C-r           edit
| C-w           delete-and-edit
| ESC           exit-prefix
| C-]           quit
| SPC           act
| !             automatic
| ,             act-and-show
| .             act-and-exit
| ?             help
| E             edit-replacement
| N             skip
| Y             act
| ^             backup
| e             edit-replacement
| n             skip
| q             exit
| y             act
| DEL           skip
| <backspace>   skip
| <delete>      skip
| <escape>      exit-prefix
| <f1>          help
| <help>                help
| <return>      exit
| 
| [back]
`----

HTH