GNU bug report logs - #12833
24.2.50; Avoid questions asked in the echo area to be overridden by messages

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Sebastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf <at> spammotel.com>

Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 13:12:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 24.2.50

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: "Sebastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf <at> spammotel.com>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12833: 24.2.50;
	Avoid questions asked in the echo area to be overridden by messages
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:01:23 -0500

> IIUC, in the examplified case, you mean to let-bind it in defun
> `org-read-date'?

That's one option, yes, tho doing it lower down the stack might help
make it work in more places.  E.g. you can try advising read-from-minibuffer.

> All those packages (`org.el', `help-fns.el', etc.) are out of my
> responsability area. I can't patch them all, can I?

These are just workarounds.  A real fix would need to be somewhere
probably in the C code, maybe in read-from-minibuffer.


        Stefan
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