bug#17272: bug#19064: bug#17272: bug#19064: bug#17272: bug#19064: 25.0.50; `message' overwrites `y-or-n-p' prompt, so user misses it

[João Távora]

Hello everyone,

I can't confirm 100% if this is the right bug to report this to, but the recent changes by Juri, which make yes-or-no-p use the minibuffer for reading,  break fido-mode's icomplete-magic-kill command (apologies if that's not the exact name).

That command prompts the user for confirmation before attempting a file deletion or buffer kill. This is done inside the minibuffer.

I haven't followed the whole discussion so I don't know if you're aware of this problem. Either way, is there an alternative for modes such as fido-mode?

Thanks,

João

On Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 08:14 Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

> The variable name is ‘message-in-echo-area’.  After a little testing,
> it seems to handle all such cases well:

I have not tested the patch, but it looks good to me.  Tiny comment:

>  usage: (message FORMAT-STRING &rest ARGS)  */)
>    (ptrdiff_t nargs, Lisp_Object *args)
> +{
> +  if (NILP (Vmessage_in_echo_area)

The doc string of `message' (and documentation) should mention this
variable, and this should also be mentioned in NEWS.

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