GNU bug report logs - #51475
read-char-choice should hide the cursor

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: ndame <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 05:26:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo, wontfix

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: 51475 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: laszlomail <at> protonmail.com, larsi <at> gnus.org, gregory <at> heytings.org, mardani29 <at> yahoo.es
Subject: bug#51475: read-char-choice should hide the cursor
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 23:04:11 +0200

On Okt 29 2021, Daniel Martín via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" wrote:

> Isearch for example doesn't show the cursor after the colon until after
> the cursor can do something useful (ie. you press M-e to edit the search
> string).  By the same reasoning, I think that read-char-choice should
> always hide the cursor.

Isearch has its focus on the buffer that is searched.  The focus for
read-char-choice is on the input.

Andreas.

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