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From: | Michael Heerdegen |
Subject: | bug#19064: bug#17272: bug#19064: 25.0.50; `message' overwrites `y-or-n-p' prompt, so user misses it |
Date: | Thu, 14 Nov 2019 18:06:57 +0100 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes: > My reply was that input is in the minibuffer, > and both `message' and `y-or-n-p' write to the > echo area (or at least they both did), so I > can't imagine how minibuffer input is lost or > "permanently hidden". Ah, ok. I think the posters just confused minibuffer and echo area for the case of y-or-n-p then (at least did I). > > > Can someone please confirm that that's not the case? > > > > I think Juri did that. > > I didn't think so - not explicitly. He confirmed > your "AFAICT only the behavior..." description, but > also your statement that "`y-or-n-p' has been > reimplemented to use read-from-minibuffer instead of > read-key" statement. (Or perhaps just one of those?) > > There are mentions in this thread (and others?) of > `minibuffer-message' being used in place of `message' > when the minibuffer is active. Yes - in the reported situations, not generally...maybe someone could send Drew an accumulated diff of all changes or so? > And I disagreed that `y-or-n-p' should read from > the minibuffer instead of reading a key. I guess this can be debated - I don't have an opinion so far. Michael.
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