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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Message #35 received at 19064 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 17272 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>,
 19064 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19064: 25.0.50; `message' overwrites `y-or-n-p' prompt, so
 user misses it
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 11:15:23 +0200

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

> >> (progn
> >>   (man "X")
> >>   (y-or-n-p "-->"))
> >>
> >> the prompt disappears and doesn't come back from alone.

> but what should Emacs do?
>
> I guess...  one possibility would be to open the echo area further and
> show the message below the prompt.  (Or above.)

Yeah.  Or alternatively, y-or-n-p could check for this situation and
restore the prompt after a certain delay (2 or 3 seconds or so).

Regards,

Michael.
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