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

From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 19064 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 17272 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Subject: Re: bug#19064: bug#17272: bug#19064: 25.0.50; `message' overwrites
 `y-or-n-p' prompt, so user misses it
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 21:29:44 +0100

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

> > Ah, ok.  I think the posters just confused minibuffer and echo area for
> > the case of y-or-n-p then (at least did I).
>
> That's easy to do.  But the statement wasn't just
> about the minibuffer when echo area was meant, or
> vice versa.  The claim was that _user input_ (not
> a prompt) became permanently hidden.

I don't know if that was also a mistake or really meant like that.

Michael.
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