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

From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 23:58:10 +0200

> So you're saying it wasn't a mistake for you to say
> that _user input_ (not a prompt) is permanently
> hidden?

The minibuffer is composed of both the prompt and user input.
Both the prompt and user input are hidden permanently
by the message covering the whole minibuffer.

> If you had seen `(yes or no)' then you would be
> using the minibuffer.  And if you had started to
> type, say, `ye' for `yes', then your minibuffer
> input would have been obscured only temporarily by
> the compilation message.

Not temporarily, but permanently.

> Using the echo area for a "prompt" is, IMO, not a
> great idea.

I agree, this is why using the minibuffer is better.