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

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: Re: bug#17272: bug#19064: 25.0.50; `message' overwrites `y-or-n-p'
 prompt, so user misses it
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 21:58:13 +0100

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

> Message "Package cl is deprecated" that overwrites `y-or-n-p' prompt
> issued by desktop.el could be fixed by this patch (requires another
> patch from bug#38076):

[...]

> -			    (message "%s" msg))
> +                            (if (minibufferp)
> +                                (minibuffer-message "%s" msg)
> +                              (message "%s" msg)))

Wouldn't it make more sense to just have `message' behave like
`minibuffer-message' if '(minibufferp)'?  Otherwise all async code will
have to have this code snippet.

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