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bug#10873: 24.0.93; `report-emacs-bug' obscures bug-reporting buffer (!)
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martin rudalics |
Subject: |
bug#10873: 24.0.93; `report-emacs-bug' obscures bug-reporting buffer (!) |
Date: |
Sun, 27 Dec 2015 18:06:20 +0100 |
> *Completions* is not a modal window.
I don't mind to disagree here.
> And it is not the case that
> users cannot or should not start another activity (related or
> unrelated) while the minibuffer is active or *Completions* is shown.
Agreed. That's precisely why the *Completions* window is dedicated.
> Certainly users should not be proscribed from having a completion
> in progress while they file a bug report. Think, for instance, of
> `enable-recursive-minibuffers'. Or think of keys that invoke
> commands from the minibuffer - commands that might do nearly
> anything. Or think of wanting to refer to the *Completions*
> buffer while filling out a bug report.
Agreed, again.
> The bug-reporting code should not make any special assumptions
> about other user activity that might be in progress or done "in
> parallel". It should not assume that either it or some other
> activity is modal. A truly modal activity will in any case do
> its best to prevent anything else from interfering.
>
> Certainly preparing a bug report is NOT a modal activity,
The modal activity in the case at hand is picking up a completion.
> and
> it should not prevent a user from interacting with Emacs in
> other ways while the report is being prepared. Nor should it
> assume that the user will not continue to interact with Emacs
> in other ways before the report is finished and sent.
>
> Use of the minibuffer should not be proscribed or curtailed just
> because bug reporting wants to display some other windows. And
> use of other, non-bug reporting, windows should not be foregone
> just because bug reporting wants to display some additional windows.
>
> What should happen is that the bug-reporting windows should both
> be visible. Or at the very least, the most important, not the
> least important, of these two windows should be visible.
>
> And as the original bug report said:
>
> This is a regression starting with Emacs 23.
>
> Since it is a regression it should not be impossible or unfeasible
> to obtain the pre-regression behavior again.
Easy. Find someone who makes the *Completions* window non-dedicated
again. My interest in this bug is exhausted already.
martin
- bug#10873: 24.0.93; `report-emacs-bug' obscures bug-reporting buffer (!), (continued)
- bug#10873: 24.0.93; `report-emacs-bug' obscures bug-reporting buffer (!), Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/27
- bug#10873: 24.0.93; `report-emacs-bug' obscures bug-reporting buffer (!), Drew Adams, 2015/12/27
- bug#10873: 24.0.93; `report-emacs-bug' obscures bug-reporting buffer (!), martin rudalics, 2015/12/27
- bug#10873: 24.0.93; `report-emacs-bug' obscures bug-reporting buffer (!), Drew Adams, 2015/12/27
- bug#10873: 24.0.93; `report-emacs-bug' obscures bug-reporting buffer (!), martin rudalics, 2015/12/28
- bug#10873: 24.0.93; `report-emacs-bug' obscures bug-reporting buffer (!), martin rudalics, 2015/12/27
- bug#10873: 24.0.93; `report-emacs-bug' obscures bug-reporting buffer (!), martin rudalics, 2015/12/28
- bug#10873: 24.0.93; `report-emacs-bug' obscures bug-reporting buffer (!), Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/28
- bug#10873: 24.0.93; `report-emacs-bug' obscures bug-reporting buffer (!), Drew Adams, 2015/12/27
- bug#10873: 24.0.93; `report-emacs-bug' obscures bug-reporting buffer (!), Drew Adams, 2015/12/27
- bug#10873: 24.0.93; `report-emacs-bug' obscures bug-reporting buffer (!),
martin rudalics <=
- bug#10873: 24.0.93; `report-emacs-bug' obscures bug-reporting buffer (!), Drew Adams, 2015/12/27
- bug#10873: 24.0.93; `report-emacs-bug' obscures bug-reporting buffer (!), martin rudalics, 2015/12/27
- bug#10873: 24.0.93; `report-emacs-bug' obscures bug-reporting buffer (!), Drew Adams, 2015/12/27
- bug#10873: 24.0.93; `report-emacs-bug' obscures bug-reporting buffer (!), martin rudalics, 2015/12/28
- bug#10873: 24.0.93; `report-emacs-bug' obscures bug-reporting buffer (!), Drew Adams, 2015/12/28
- bug#10873: 24.0.93; `report-emacs-bug' obscures bug-reporting buffer (!), martin rudalics, 2015/12/28
- bug#10873: 24.0.93; `report-emacs-bug' obscures bug-reporting buffer (!), Drew Adams, 2015/12/28