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23.0.96; regression: minibuffer-message interferes with C-u

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From: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 5923 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 'Stefan Monnier' <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>,
 3938 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5923: 23.1.95; minibuffer-message discards input events
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2016 00:06:20 -0400

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

>> Actually, the problem is here in `sit-for':
>>
>> (let ((read (read-event nil nil seconds)))
>>       (or (null read)
>> 	  (progn
>> 	    (if (eq overriding-terminal-local-map 
>>                 universal-argument-map)
>> 		(setq read (cons t read)))
>> 	    (push read unread-command-events)
>> 	    nil))))))
>> 
>> Since the value of `overriding-terminal-local-map' is not
>> `universal-argument-map' in my case, it fails to treat any 
>> input received properly.
>
> However, something else must be going on also, because the sit-for code is
> identical for Emacs 22, and I don't see the bug in Emacs 22.

Is this bug fixed?  The special casing of this in `sit-for' has been
removed meanwhile, but also the overriding-map-is-bound and
universal-argument-other-key have been removed, so it's hard to run the
code examples in current (version 25) Emacs.

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