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Strange minibuffer prompt on exiting Emacs

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From: Richard Copley <rcopley <at> gmail.com>
To: "bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Strange minibuffer prompt on exiting Emacs
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 11:33:15 +0000

The prompt to confirm exiting Ediff has gone a bit strange. To
reproduce in "emacs -Q" (assuming files "x" and "y" exist in the
working directory):

M-x ediff RET x RET y RET q

The expected prompt is
"Quit this Ediff session? (y or n)  ".

The actual text shown in the minibuffer is
"Quit this Ediff session? (y or n)  switch-frame-".

(The frame switch event occurred because the little Ediff control
panel frame went away and the main frame got activated.)

The "switch-frame-" is of course not really part of the prompt. It is
rendered like what you get when you enter an incomplete key sequence,
like "C-x-". It seems as though switch-frame is being treated as a
prefix key, but it's not treated as such in most circumstances. Try
this for example:

C-x 5 2 ;; make-frame-command
C-h k ;; describe-key
;; Use the window manager to activate the other frame.
;; Minibuffer prompt is "Describe key (or click or menu item):  switch-frame-")
RET
;; *Help* buffer describes "RET", not "switch-frame RET".

In GNU Emacs 25.0.90.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
 of 2016-02-06 built on MACHINE
Repository revision: 87ae21858adc173c129ff8dfec8ce74cd82e77be
Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.10586
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For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Reading file c:/temp/xxx.txt ...
Reading file c:/temp/yyy.txt ...
Computing differences between xxx.txt and yyy.txt ...
Processing difference regions ... done
Quit this Ediff session? (y or n) y

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Message #8 received at 22581 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Richard Copley <rcopley <at> gmail.com>, 22581 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22581: Strange minibuffer prompt on exiting Emacs
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2016 18:43:55 +0100

> The prompt to confirm exiting Ediff has gone a bit strange. To
> reproduce in "emacs -Q" (assuming files "x" and "y" exist in the
> working directory):
>
> M-x ediff RET x RET y RET q
>
> The expected prompt is
> "Quit this Ediff session? (y or n)  ".
>
> The actual text shown in the minibuffer is
> "Quit this Ediff session? (y or n)  switch-frame-".
>
> (The frame switch event occurred because the little Ediff control
> panel frame went away and the main frame got activated.)
>
> The "switch-frame-" is of course not really part of the prompt. It is
> rendered like what you get when you enter an incomplete key sequence,
> like "C-x-". It seems as though switch-frame is being treated as a
> prefix key, but it's not treated as such in most circumstances. Try
> this for example:
>
> C-x 5 2 ;; make-frame-command
> C-h k ;; describe-key
> ;; Use the window manager to activate the other frame.
> ;; Minibuffer prompt is "Describe key (or click or menu item):  switch-frame-")
> RET
> ;; *Help* buffer describes "RET", not "switch-frame RET".

Thanks for the report.  This is the same as bug#21797.

Bug#22068 is another instance of this.

martin

Message #13 received at 22581 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Richard Copley <rcopley <at> gmail.com>,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 22581 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22581: Strange minibuffer prompt on exiting Emacs
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2016 19:58:46 +0200

> From: Richard Copley <rcopley <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 11:33:15 +0000
> 
> The prompt to confirm exiting Ediff has gone a bit strange. To
> reproduce in "emacs -Q" (assuming files "x" and "y" exist in the
> working directory):
> 
> M-x ediff RET x RET y RET q
> 
> The expected prompt is
> "Quit this Ediff session? (y or n)  ".
> 
> The actual text shown in the minibuffer is
> "Quit this Ediff session? (y or n)  switch-frame-".
> 
> (The frame switch event occurred because the little Ediff control
> panel frame went away and the main frame got activated.)
> 
> The "switch-frame-" is of course not really part of the prompt. It is
> rendered like what you get when you enter an incomplete key sequence,
> like "C-x-". It seems as though switch-frame is being treated as a
> prefix key, but it's not treated as such in most circumstances. Try
> this for example:
> 
> C-x 5 2 ;; make-frame-command
> C-h k ;; describe-key
> ;; Use the window manager to activate the other frame.
> ;; Minibuffer prompt is "Describe key (or click or menu item):  switch-frame-")
> RET
> ;; *Help* buffer describes "RET", not "switch-frame RET".

Stefan, could you please look into this?  AFAICS, this is caused by
your changes in 5dc644a to generalize the prefix-command machinery: a
binary built a day before that doesn't have this problem, while a
binary build 4 weeks later does.

Thanks.

Message #18 received at 22581 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Richard Copley <rcopley <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 22581 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22581: Strange minibuffer prompt on exiting Emacs
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:52:05 -0500

> The actual text shown in the minibuffer is
> "Quit this Ediff session? (y or n)  switch-frame-".

I installed a patch which should fix this case.
The echo-keystrokes code and still very messy, tho :-(


        Stefan

Message #21 received at 22581 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Copley <rcopley <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 22581 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22581: Strange minibuffer prompt on exiting Emacs
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 21:09:35 +0000

On 24 February 2016 at 20:52, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> The actual text shown in the minibuffer is
>> "Quit this Ediff session? (y or n)  switch-frame-".
>
> I installed a patch which should fix this case.
> The echo-keystrokes code and still very messy, tho :-(

That case looks good to me now. Thank you.

Message #26 received at 22581-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Richard Copley <rcopley <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 22581-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22581: Strange minibuffer prompt on exiting Emacs
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 19:19:31 -0500

>> The echo-keystrokes code and still very messy, tho :-(
                            ^^^
                            is

> That case looks good to me now. Thank you.

Thanks for confirming,
closing,


        Stefan

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