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

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 18:39:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: confirmed, fixed

Merged with 446, 17272

Found in versions 24.4.50, 25.0.50

Fixed in version 27.0.50

Done: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>, 17272 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, 19064 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19064: bug#17272: bug#19064: 25.0.50; `message' overwrites `y-or-n-p' prompt, so user misses it
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 06:52:44 +0100

Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:

> But before I had a chance to answer the prompt, compilation finished
> and obscured the prompt with this message permanently:
>
>   Compilation finished
>
> So I forgot about what was in the prompt :-(

Yeah, it's a problem all over the place.

> Since Drew doesn't want to improve safety to cover all such cases,
> we need to address these issues one by one, so here is the next patch:

Drew doesn't have very powers.  I say go ahead and make the change in
`message' (with a variable that can be used to force `message' to not
behave like `minibuffer-message').

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