GNU bug report logs - #4873
23.1.50; Some unexpected behaviour during dired confirmation prompt

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tim Van Holder <tim.vanholder <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 10:20:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 8255, 9001

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Tim Van Holder <tim.vanholder <at> gmail.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#4873: 23.1.50; Some unexpected behaviour during dired confirmation prompt
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:09:37 +0100

Given a dired session in a directory containing files 'a' and 'b':
- put cursor on 'a' and press R (rename)
- enter 'b' as new name

Result: dired prompts with "Overwrite 'b'? [Type yn!q or C-h]".

Unexpected behaviour at this point:
- C-g does not work (only 'q' cancels)
- toolbar goes blank (with a minor frame resize as a result); given that
  C-h is allowed, maybe the 'help' icon could be left active?
- Pressing a key other than those listed results in
    "Invalid key - type  for help."
  (i.e. the character for ^H (0x08) is shown instead of "C-h")

In GNU Emacs 23.1.50.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20)
 of 2009-11-05 on leeloo
Windowing system distributor `RealVNC Ltd', version 11.0.3370
configured using `configure  '--with-x''
This bug report was last modified 13 years and 318 days ago.

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