GNU bug report logs - #38219
Error on leaving Ediff after killing vital buffer

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Message #14 received at 38219 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: Richard Copley <rcopley <at> gmail.com>, 38219 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38219: Error on leaving Ediff after killing vital buffer
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 10:02:06 +0100

> Can the same be said about read-from-minibuffer?
> Shouldn't read-from-minibuffer mangle 'this-command'?
> What it some command wants to check if 'this-command'
> is 'exit-minibuffer' afterwards?  Shouldn't this change better
> to be localized to callers in ediff, instead of adding such hack?

You could argue that 'ediff' already breaks

(defalias 'y-or-n-p 'yes-or-no-p)

They would probably say that consulting 'this-command' after a
'y-or-n-p' "has worked ever since".  Guess whose argument wins.

martin

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