Re: bug#7234: 24.0.50; strange message after text-scale-adjust

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> > It would be better that read-event call in
> > text-scale-adjust has some prompt:
> > e.g. (read-event "+,-,0 for further adjustment: ")

> Agreed.

Shall I install that change, or do you have a better prompt
string, or should we wait for your alternative
implementation?

> > For non-interactive use, you should probably also be using
> > `text-scale-set' or `text-scale-increase' instead.

> BTW, I've been playing around with an alternative implementation for
> such things.  The reason is that the use of
> read-event/read-char/read-key has surprising side-effects: in those
> cases I'm concerned with, the user expects that the command is already
> finished and the behavior is somewhat consistent with that expectation,
> but not completely: indeed typing "any" key sequence (except for a few
> special ones) runs the usual corresponding command, but OTOH
> post-command-hook and friends aren't run when expected.

I think the situation is similar to isearch.  How does
isearch solve it?

> So, instead I use a new function set-temporary-overlay-map which sets up
> a keymap that's only active for a short period of time (by default just
> for the next key-sequence):

>   ;; ----------------------------------------------------------------
> --- 294,317 ----
>   `text-scale-decrease' may be more appropriate."
>     (interactive "p")
>     (let ((first t)
>       (ev last-command-event)
>       (echo-keystrokes nil))
> !     (let* ((base (event-basic-type ev))
> !            (step
> !             (case base
> !               ((?+ ?=) inc)
> !               (?- (- inc))
> !               (?0 0)
> !               (t inc))))
>       (text-scale-increase step)
> !       (set-temporary-overlay-map
> !        (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap)))
> !          (define-key map [?=] 'text-scale-increase)
> !          (define-key map [?0] (lambda () (interactive) (text-scale-increase 
> 0)))
> !          (define-key map [?+] 'text-scale-increase)
> !          (define-key map [?-] 'text-scale-decrease)
> !          map)
> !        t))))
  
With that, how to show the prompt?

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Kenichi Handa
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