GNU bug report logs - #18340
24.4.50; Bad UI for `find-file-literally'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 21:39:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Merged with 5423

Found in versions 23.1.91, 24.4.50

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 18340 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 18340 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18340: 24.4.50; Bad UI for `find-file-literally'
Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 02:59:36 +0200

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> Summary: Don't show a multi-line message for prompting `y-or-n-p'
> in the echo area and expect users to see it.
>
> The UI for `find-file-literally' depends on `resize-mini-windows' being
> non-nil.  Not a good idea.  To see how bad it can be, set
> `resize-mini-windows' to nil, then visit a file, then try to visit it
> using `M-x find-file-literally'.  You see only this line in the echo
> area, which is not even a question:
>
>   The file foo.el is already visited normally.

We should perhaps consider obsoleting `resize-mini-windows'.  Emacs has
many prompts now that don't make sense in a single line.

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